The IRS is still struggling to carry out President Joe Biden’s orders to go after more high-income taxpayers, an inspector general said Tuesday, saying the tax agency is grappling just to keep up with attrition in its ranks, much less expand its audits.
Experienced revenue agents who are still on the job are being pulled from auditing duties to train new employees, sapping the agency of exactly the people it needs to boost audits of the complex tax returns filed by wealthier Americans, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.
“The IRS’s Inflation Reduction Act Strategic Operating Plan sets forth leveraging data analytics to improve the IRS’s understanding of the tax filings of high-wealth individuals and to address potential noncompliance,” the inspector general said. “Consequently, the IRS needs to update its high-income taxpayer definition to better identify and track examination results and manage examination priorities.
The inspector general also said neither division consistently trains new revenue employees on the tactics that high-income taxpayers use to evade paying what they owe.
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