The officials said the additional IRS funding provided through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act had enabled increased oversight and greater awareness of the practice.
Thank goodness for that!
And, yes, do it!
This is the way.
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Indeed. Also, Republicans have already proposed dramatic cuts to the IRS, so we should be under no illusions about what will happen to this loophole and Direct File if Trump & Co. take control in November.
They have been gutted for a decade. It was a genius move to circumvent their complete failure by using the inflation reduction act.
Every dollar invested in the IRS give more than that in taxes from cheaters. Worth it
Yeah, it's a whopping 600% in general and DOUBLE that for auditing the top 10%!
If you're for the government being fiscally responsible (rather than pretending that macroeconomic systems are identical to household budgets) you want rule changes like the one mentioned in the headline as well as more funding for auditing and other enforcement of existing IRS rules.
... for rich people.
Because historically it's been the middle class and poor that get audited, never the rich.
In fact the IRS could just drop every investigation into those and focus on the rich every time.
I'm down for also investigating the upper middle class. Some small business owners are scummy tax cheats whose entire success rests on stealing wages from their workers and taxes from the government. They need to be put out of business to open up market share for honest companies.
I once worked for a multimillionaire who got audited. He did have to sell a bunch of properties, cars and other toys, to pay taxes, interest, and fines, and got ten years in the pen. This was in the nineties, and he was well-liked, but I never* heard, nor heard of, anyone claim it was unfair, including those who benefited from his corruption, except one guy who bought and sold particular high-end products for him who was also audited, and avoided prison, but idk whether he had to pay delinquent taxes, penalties and interest or not.
The IRS processed 162 million tax returns in FY 2023. If they raise $50 billion, then that means $308 for every taxpayer in America, courtesy of the IRS.
Honest taxpayers rejoice. Tax cheats, go cry about it.
Really it has no impact on most of us. I have never used a partnership tax basis shift and almost certainly never would have. It is going to cost a bunch of obscenely wealthy jerks some money and cost the rest of us nothing. Win-win.
Really it has no impact on most of us
No NEGATIVE impact, you mean.
Taking money that would otherwise just be passed back and forth between billionaires and hectomillionaires hurts nobody.
Investing that money in any of the thousands of critically underfunded parts of the government (education, infrastructure including Internet, antipoverty programs, and public defenders being some of the most important ones) could be absolutely TRANSFORMATIVE, especially for those most in need and/or most abused by the current status quo.
i'm a big fan of "hectomillionaires" (the term, not the system that allows hectomillionaires to exist to the detriment of us all, of course)
What about decamillionaires and kilomillionaries? Gotta love metric system.
Kilomillionaire literally means 1000 millions, aka a billion (short system) or a milliard (long system).
Correct. Now let's wait for american scared of metric.
I do think the long system makes more sense. That being said, I will not be using it.
—James Grime, mathematician, Numberphile
That $50 billion is over a 10 year period.
$30.80 a year is still $30.80, and that is literally money that requires no extra work or payment on the part of the honest taxpayer.
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What say you, "no new taxes, just close loopholes" Republicans?
but they worked to hard to create those loopholes.
don't you value honest work?
"We have been dead for 20 years."
"There are so many other loopholes, we should focus on the ones poor people use"
Which republicans might those be? The only ones I hear about are “exploit the loopholes and cut taxes for the rich” kind.
That's SOCIALISM!
-Fiscally Responsible Republicans who rely on Food Stamps.
Food Stamps.
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Kick ass, IRS. Between this, tye free filing program and the new automatic taxes, I'm ecstatic about cheering them on.
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Do it!
My dad be like the job creators need that money so it can trickle!
Is there a way for Republicans to block this? Because if so, they'll block it.
Under Trump and Republicans, they were actively defunding the IRS and forcing them to reduce staff. Can't audit a billionaire when theyre shorthanded.
Even though every dollar invested in the IRS is a multiplier.
They could refuse aid to Ukraine until the new rules are scrapped like they did last time
I wonder how many low income earners in America are getting riled about this right now.
The IRS always says they're gonna target the wealthy, but most of their audits are lower income people because they're easier targets.
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I’ll believe it when it happens. And if it does, I won’t expect it to stand if the admin flips in November.
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Wealthy taxnonpayers
After watching Finding The Money, terms like “raise” and “revenue” applied to taxes seem deliberately misleading.
Do it. Dont let your dreams be dreams.
Could you also please allow those of us overseas to use silly things like retirement accounts without having it all be considered PFICs? I just wanna contribute to my current country's equivalent of an ISA/401K type of thing.
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