IRS launches safety review after right-wing threats

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

The Internal Revenue Service will launch a full security review of its facilities nationwide, Commissioner Charles Rettig announced Tuesday, as congressional Republicans and far-right extremists are lashing out at the agency and the new funding it is slated to receive in a massive spending law. “We see what’s out there in terms of social media. Our workforce is concerned about their safety,” Rettig told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday. “The comments being made are extremely disrespectful to the agency, to the employees and to the country.”

In a letter to employees sent Wednesday, he wrote that the agency would conduct risk assessments for each of the IRS’s 600 facilities, and evaluate whether to increase security patrols along building exteriors, boost designations for restricted areas, examine security around entrances and assess exterior lighting. It will be the agency’s first such review since the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, which killed 168 people.

“For me this is personal,” Rettig wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Post. “I’ll continue to make every effort to dispel any lingering misperceptions about our work. And I will continue to advocate for your safety in every venue where I have an audience. You go above and beyond every single day, and I am honored to work with each of you.”

The IRS is set to receive $80 billion in fresh funding over 10 years as part of President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act. The money is designed to help the agency increase scrutiny of tax cheats and increase enforcement on high-income earners and major corporations, including a large hiring push to help the IRS make up for more than a decade of underfunding.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/08/23/irs-safety-republicans/

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[3825-87867]

1. A Magat No-Brainer

Yeah, go ahead and piss of the guys
1. ) who have the ability to hunt you down and/or take you to court for any criminal, civil or petty crime you may or may not have committed in your life:
or
2.) who have the ability to make your financial life a monetary nightmare.

A Magat mind isn't just full of rotted lobes!

[dweller]

2. Congressional repugs and far right extremists

One and the same



✌🏻

[Novara]

3. This is insane:

"...as congressional Republicans and far-right extremists are lashing out at the agency and the new funding it is slated to receive in a massive spending law."

Congressional republicans are threatening the IRS now. Defcon 5 for enforcing the tax laws? What are they afraid of - that they'll now get caught cheating on their taxes? That they can no longer get away with it?

[Initech]

4. LMAO, the party of "law and order" is threatening to murder the IRS.

The hypocrisy is insane on this.

[maxsolomon]

5. I'm already hearing this crap from my elderly father.

An 86 year old pensioner with barely any income.

To quote: "79 billion will be paid by us thru collection by the 187,000 new tax collectors. Should be fun."

It's amazing how pervasive and persuasive the RW Media is. He has no idea what actually funds the bill, and he won't listen. None of his children make over 250K, even as a couple. Close, but not that close.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. That amount is for 10 years

(as part of reconciliation package, which normally lay out budget/expenditures for 10 years).

From a news report that I think I heard recently, one thing that was being looked at was to have a fully "free" online tax return system (vs the "free" only for a certain income and less). I think the story noted that some of the tax prep software companies were balking at that. And I know something like that would be $$$$$$$$ (particularly for network infrastructure and securing it on a bigger scale).

[maxsolomon]

11. i told him that it was over 10 years! he doesn't get it anymore, if he ever did.

my siblings piled on too - no more coddling!

[paleotn]

7. Audit the wankers.

[progree]

8. Debunking IRS is hiring 87,000 agents to do audits

Debunking IRS is hiring 87,000 agents to do audits (In all, the IRS might net roughly 20,000 to 30,000 more employees from the new funding, enough to restore the tax-collecting agency’s staff to where it was roughly a decade ago, and they won't all be agents.) , 8/21/22

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217069251
https://time.com/6204928/irs-87000-agents-factcheck-biden/

The Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark climate, health care and tax package that passed the Senate on Sunday and is expected to head to Biden’s desk after the House approves it on Friday, includes roughly $78 billion for the IRS to be phased in over 10 years. A Treasury Department report from May 2021 estimated that such an investment would enable the agency to hire roughly 87,000 employees by 2031. But most of those hires would not be Internal Revenue agents, and wouldn’t be new positions.

In all, the IRS might net roughly 20,000 to 30,000 more employees from the new funding, enough to restore the tax-collecting agency’s staff to where it was roughly a decade ago.

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. If you follow tax laws and try not to scam or cheat the system, you have nothing to worry about

See right wingers. . .same BS meme you use on black and minority victims of police brutality can be used on you as well.

Why does it seem on the MAGAts care about this? Are they all tax cheats?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. This 👆