IRS Should Disband Unit That Targets Pass-Throughs, Group Says

The IRS should disband its new unit devoted to pass-through entities and partnerships because it unfairly places onerous tasks onto taxpayers, a business group said.

The unit, which started operating last October, is pursuing enforcement campaigns against law-abiding taxpayers and is “contributing to the overreaching and unduly burdensome administrative state” that President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to curtail, the National Association of Manufacturers said in a May 8 comment letter that the Treasury Department made public Tuesday.

Housed inside the IRS’s Large Business and International Division, the pass-through unit was set up under former President Joe Biden. The IRS ...