U.S. tax agency weighs firing half of its 90,000 employees

Less scrutiny for the billionaires. Currently ongoing audits will be scrapped. How convenient.

You knew this was coming - along with a "huuge" tax cut to the uber-wealthy, now he's gutting the IRS so the Top 1% can cheat on their taxes to their heart's content...

Just part of the Demented Dimwit and his cabal of criminals plan to destroy our democracy and replace it with a mob-style kleptocracy...

How on earth do they have so many in the first place?

Biden expanded the number of IRS agents.

Hardworking taxpayers deserve relief.

Time to get out the chainsaw.

Plus, they want to tax John Q. taxpayer to spend money on their alphabet soup of 'aid' programs and send it to certain corrupt foreign governments. This reaching into decent people's pockets has to stop yesterday.

You know if you really wanted to save on IRS agents, just have the government send a bill to each individual as they already know how much you made for most citizens and the poor should not owe anything.

Why doesn’t the government just simplify the tax code?

or take the right amount out of people’s checks the first time?

then we don’t need 90,000 people consuming our tax money, causing us to have to be taxed even more to pay them.

Good idea, and why not more tax automation and simplification?! As these people can generate more societal value in the 'real' economy = MAGA!

How on earth do they have so many in the first place?

Because it's a country of 340 million people. Do you think this can be done by ten dudes with a computer?

Yeah they claim to not know how much I owe already.

but they sure somehow know if what I submit is wrong.

How is that?

Less scrutiny for the billionaires. Currently ongoing audits will be scrapped. How convenient.

Yup. Over half of all unpaid taxes are attributable to the top 5% of earners. This represents hundreds of billions of dollars. Less agents = even more fraud. Trump, once again, working hard for the rich elite and spitting in the face of the hardworking everyday Americans.

Very few American expats are paying Japanese income taxes and then IRS taxes for incomes over $150,000 (¥18 million). Not many earn those figures.

90,000 tax workers for a working population of 172,000,000 workers.

spitting in the face of the hardworking everyday Americans.

speaking of these exact people….

ALL Democrat politicians, most of them millionaires, what did they just do?

They ALL voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on retirement.

those would have benefitted hardworking everyday Americans, no?

“The 1%” don’t get OT or tips and don’t need pensions.

liberals just keep finding themselves on the wrong side of every issue due to Trump hate.

Dems have proven their love of weaponized Govt., including the IRS, Obummer went after Rs with the IRS bigtime, Biden just launched audits on some of Trumps cabinet nominees on his way out the door etc.

Weaponization of Govt. Agencies has to stop, downsize Federal Govt. and send it back to the states for accountability an efficiency, including tax work!

No tax on car payments. as long as it’s an American car.

great, right? Hard working middle class need a way to get to work.

liberals: how dare he tell us what car to buy! Is a Tesla an American car? Everything is done for only the 1%! Elon! Ride a bike! Walk!

ummm…the 1% don’t have “car payments”.

Why doesn’t the government just simplify the tax code?

or take the right amount out of people’s checks the first time?

Is that all you think they do?

A large part of their work is going after tax fraud. Could save billions. You like that, right?

90,000 tax workers for a working population of 172,000,000 workers.

154 million claims filed.

1700 claims per worker

who have about the same amount of time worked per year, 1700 hours.

so that’s 1 hour for every single claim to cover 100%.

So… Whats the audit percentage? 0.49%

oh.

BlacklabelToday 05:43 pm JST

They ALL voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on retirement.

You see, when you put the poison pill gutting medicaid in the bill, everything else in the bill becomes irrelevant.

HopeSpringsEternalToday 05:48 pm JST

Biden just launched audits on some of Trumps cabinet nominees on his way out the door etc.

Sources that Biden reached into the IRS to cause some audits or nonsense. We do know, however, that the Trump justice department wants to fire everyone who investigated Donald Trump or the Jan. 6th rioters.

Could save billions.

their salaries alone cost around 9-10 billion a year. Not to think of future pensions.

poor strategy to “save” money.

However harsh, the implementation, the need for reform, restructuring of how much government costs.

How large government should be, sooner or later a complete programme of "federal bureaucracy" spending must be fully accountable to the tax payers.

Its the Trump/Musk effect that triggers, he chainsaw, the drama, the theater,

It is galling, provoke anger, resentment, protest.

Watch the President Trump speech to congress again.

IN FULL: Donald Trump delivers an address to a joint session of US Congress | ABC NEWS  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFbbDxKHzGU

"America is back"

"43 days and we are just getting started"

Presidents Trump opening words.

Despise the man, ok, what Trump represents is change, that change is essential to provoke a global wake up call.

They ALL voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on retirement.

Because those policies were dishonestly crammed in a budget bill that mainly gutted medicaid. This now allows trolls to make the dishonest point that democrats are somehow against the working class, even though the consequences of gutting medicaid will economically be a hundred times worse for them than having "no tax on tips" (which is actually a false good idea, as John Oliver brilliantly explained last Sunday).

Anyway, personally I'm glad that this bill passed, because it will make a lot of people who voted for Trump suffer. Yup, I just wrote that.

“ They ALL voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on retirement.”

not true. a complete fabrication from right wing trolls on social media.

there was nothing in the budget resolution about ending taxes on those things. nothing.

a budget resolution does not address funding for federal agencies or change tax law. it is a blueprint for targets and nothing about taxes on tips, etc., was in the resolution.

they voted against the target of zero expenditure on medicaid.

individual bills for that must be voted on by congress.

if you heard that on fox news or newsmax, it was a lie.

an uniformed public parroting falsehoods is no way to have a democracy.

show us where the provision for not taxing tips, etc., was in the resolution. you can’t.

The arrogance is relentless, however much you want to gnaw furniture.

JT people, most at the very least, will never ever accept Donald Trump/JD Trump administration as a need to change our perspective on government.

If the opposition democrats do not take note, number 48 will be JD Vance.

A possible two terms.

Now pause the huffing and puffing, and search for a plan B

That is remotely electable

The salary savings would be less than $3 billion pa.

With the current technological advancement we have today 90,000 employees are one too many! Bearing in mind, we also have tax return softwares reducing the number of public tax returns agencies.

the tax code is a disaster because of congress carving out special exemptions for special interests.

both parties have been responsible for generations.

you could probably write a fair tax code on a 3x5 card, but special interests and their lobbyists don’t want anything fair. they want to be special.

why is it fair that some kid working at mcdonald’s has to pay into medicare and social security, but musk, for example, doesn’t pay a penny towards them? is that fair?

"why is it fair that some kid working at mcdonald’s has to pay into medicare and social security, but musk, for example, doesn’t pay a penny towards them? is that fair?"

A very good logical question, but what does Elon, you or me have to do with writing tax codes?

their salaries alone cost around 9-10 billion a year. Not to think of future pensions. 

poor strategy to “save” money.

In 2023 they uncovered and successfully prosecuted over 34 billion in tax evasion and fraud.

Do you think this number will go up or down with a 50% reduction in staff?

why is it fair that some kid working at mcdonald’s has to pay into medicare and social security, but musk, for example, doesn’t pay a penny towards them? is that fair?

Of course it isn't. But don't worry, president Musk will make it even less fair now!

even filing software has been corrupted. free online electronic returns managed by the irs was shut down by lobbyists to make people use turbotax or others.

In 2023, there were 161 million tax return forms.

which is great! Enough to build the entire wall that was “too expensive” if I remember well.

If you think he said it would cost $3bn you most certainly do not remember well.

Which federal agency earns more than the IRS?

"During Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, the IRS collected nearly $4.7 trillion in gross taxes, processed almost 271.5 million tax returns and other forms, and issued about $659.1 billion in tax refunds. In FY 2023, nearly 60.3 million taxpayers were assisted by calling or visiting an IRS office."

one of the biggest failures of society is when people find out something they thought was true is not, most won’t accept it was a lie.

simplify the tax code first. cutting the irs employees in half would mean there would be more tax lawyers than irs employees in total.

“In 2023, there were 161 million tax return forms”

plus business tax returns and other entities. it over 200 million total.

there is a way to eliminate individual income taxes completely and reduce the irs by 90%.

if the top 500 companies paid the same tax rate berkshire hathaway pays willingly every year to support the infrastructure the nation that enables businesses to operate, there would be no need for income taxes.

If the top 500 companies paid the same tax rate Berkshire Hathaway pays willingly every year to support the infrastructure the nation that enables businesses to operate, there would be no need for income taxes.

That is a change Trump should get serious about.

When did Trump last pay income tax?

 Trump reported millions in negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020, and he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, Trump and his wife, Melania, reported significant losses of more than $16.4 million but reported a total income of $4.4 million.

It is for political historians to search for a plausible theory to the creation of Donald Trump political phenomenon 2025.

Trump's congress baseball bat beating of once conventional political progressive thinking was testimony to what's to come.

It is a frightening reminder of/to when voters run out of patience, reach out and dare I suggest, could fall on stony ground.

Remember, Donald the Dimwit bankrupted a casino - along with five other companies. You don't get any easier money-maker than a casino. A mob high school dropout can run one for a profit...

Probably because he fired 90% of his accountants - or maybe like Musk, he replaced them with lower-paid immigrants...

Anyway, this is all a sop to his Top 1% broligarchs - who can now cheat to their heart's content...

Trump 2.0 is nothing but the Kremlin West...

An example...

Ok

WATCH: Elizabeth Warren Reacts After Trump Lobs 'Pocahontas' Attack On Her During Speech To Congress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn_QeaX_3QE

We all created Donald trump 2025 take that responsibility on the chin

show us where the provision to “eliminate Medicaid” was in the resolution, you can’t

https://www.ajmc.com/view/house-passes-budget-resolution-cutting-billions-from-medicaid-funding

Here you go.

And one more just for extra info to address your point, not trying to over-link:

“Although the budget resolution does not mention Medicaid specifically, lawmakers would be hard pressed to find cuts sufficient enough to meet its targets without touching Medicare or Medicaid. If the Energy and Commerce Committee — the committee tasked with finding $880 billion in savings — cut everything that’s not healthcare-related, the committee would still be short $600 billion, according to the New York Times.”

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/house-republicans-pass-budget-blueprint-medicaid-cuts/740970/

Anyway, this is all a sop to his Top 1% broligarchs - who can now cheat to their heart's content...

Trump 2.0 is nothing but the Kremlin West...

Any insight into this article or just Trump this, Russia that as usual?

itsonlyrocknroll

We all created Donald trump 2025 take that responsibility on the chin

The United States of America created Donald Trump.

The United States of America created Donald Trump.

And the FSB helped get him elected through facebook and twitter.

Anyway, this is all a sop to his Top 1% broligarchs - who can now cheat to their heart's content...

Trump 2.0 is nothing but the Kremlin West...

Any insight into this article or just Trump this, Russia that as usual?

Maybe you'd better read the article before posting - I counted three "Trump's" therein...

And where there's a Trump, there's always a Putin...

wallace we are all capable, you and i too.

Donald Trump did not simple politically materialise from thin air.