IRS Targets Rich Tax Dodgers Using New Funds, Chief Werfel Says

The IRS is taking “swift and aggressive action” to strengthen enforcement efforts against high-income individuals as it starts to use the funding it received in the tax-and-climate law, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said.

Recent enforcement efforts include closing about 175 delinquent tax cases for millionaires yielding $38 million, and intensifying work to crack down on millionaires who don’t file tax returns. The agency has also identified about 100 high-income people claiming benefits in Puerto Rico without meeting certain requirements, with many of those cases expected to be taken up by the Criminal Investigation division, and is escalating enforcement efforts around ...