IRS Funding Cuts Continue to Compromise Taxpayer Service and Weaken Enforcement
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IRS Funding Cuts Continue to Compromise Taxpayer Service and Weaken Enforcement
UPDATED
September 30, 2015
BY Chuck Marr, Joel Friedman, and Brandon DeBot
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget has been cut by 18 percent since 2010, after adjusting for inflation. The cuts have forced the IRS to reduce its workforce, severely scale back employee training, and delay much-needed upgrades to information technology systems. These steps, in turn, have weakened the IRS’s ability to enforce the nation’s tax laws and serve taxpayers efficiently, as the National Taxpayer Advocate, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IRS Oversight Board, and the Government Accountability Office all have documented.
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