IRS commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel is expected to tell a Senate committee that if he gets the job, he will not increase audits on those making less than $400,000.
Daniel Werfel, President Biden's nominee to be the next
Werfel's prepared opening remarks for his Wednesday confirmation hearing, obtained by The Associated Press, addresses concernsthat approximately $80 billion in new funding from the Inflation Reduction Act will go toward thousands of new IRS agents who will target the middle class. House Republicans tried to scrap the new funding and passed a bill to do just that, but it has stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Even if it passed both chambers – not a likely outcome – Biden has said he would veto it.Danny Werfel, now the nominee to head the agency, is expected to promise not to increase audits on the middle class.
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