Dear IRS—Here’s Where You Should Spend Some of That $80 Billion

The IRS plans to use some of the $80 billion burning a hole in its pocket to become a “digital first” tax collector to improve customer service-type interactions with taxpayers. It also pledged, along with the Biden administration, not to increase audit rates for individuals making less than $400,000.

Enforcement efforts have been allotted $47.4 billion of the $80 billion total. So if the IRS is looking for more places to invest those funds, here are some ideas for how further digitizing can crack down on the estimated gross tax gap of $496 billion.

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