New IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told Congress on Thursday that taxpayers with incomes under $400,000 won’t have to worry about an increase in their rate of audits for “several years,” saying that for now, he’s pouring all of his new audit money into high-income filers.
He also acknowledged that his agency is hiring some armed investigators, but said they are a tiny fraction of the overall hiring. He said most of his focus is on audits and customer service.
“The reason we need a lot of people is for billionaires and multinational corporations. It’s just a complicated return,” he said.“I want to right-size the IRS,” he said. “I’ve heard the phrase ‘supersize the IRS.’ That is not the intent. We have to meet the demand.” He held up a graph showing the increase in audit staff will be much larger than the increase in customer service staff. Mr. Murphy said that seemed out of whack for an agency that has abysmal levels of service.
In 2018, those making under $25,000 saw audit rates of four out of every 1,000 returns. Those making between $25,000 and $500,000 saw audit rates of one or two out of every 1,000 returns. That 2010 figure looms large because officials have said that’s the year before budget cuts began to sap the IRS of manpower, and it represents an outside limit on how high audit rates might return for lower-income filers.
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