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Senator Chris Coons

Paying taxes & getting your refund should be easy, but after years of underfunding, the IRS is slow and backlogged.

is right: the IRS needs a budget that allows it to improve service for taxpayers while ensuring billionaires pay what they owe.

U.S. IRS 'under siege', Yellen says, needs $80 bln to beef up tax work

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday urged Congress to approve $80 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service to help the agency reduce a huge backlog of tax returns and allow it...

1:32 PM · Jun 9, 2022

Chaim “Life” Lazaros

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They’ve been “Starving the Beast” w the IRS for a long time. Every dollar we fund IRS returns 10 dollars in evaded taxes

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OK so let me teach you something. First HS education is who works for IRS. The systems are antiquated and old and designed to enrich the rich and screw over the middle class of which no longer exists..So the poor are taking the brunt of the tax system. Rich 12% and we pay 36%?

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For taxpayers or against taxpayers?

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