Internal Revenue Service Budget Cuts Spell Trouble

January 22, 2015

According to its mission statement, the Internal Revenue Service’s goal is “to provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.” Over the past few years, the IRS has had to fulfill this mission with shrinking resources, and National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson has noted that “the budget environment of the last five years has brought about a devastating erosion of taxpayer service, harming taxpayers individually and collectively.” In this article, we discuss concerns that the additional cuts implemented as part of the recent budget deal will undermine both revenue collection and the fair enforcement of the Internal Revenue Code. 

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Jeremy H. Temkin