With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the IRS found itself with $80 billion more dollars to spend and a mandate from Congress to focus on cracking down on a rather nebulous concept known as the “tax gap.” That open-ended directive to step up scrutiny on taxpayers created concern that taxpayers’ privacy might be violated in the process — concerns that were entirely ignored by progressives in Congress who manage to be surprised every time stepped-up IRS enforcement inevitably catches low-income taxpayers in its dragnet.
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