The IRS has no intention of arming tax auditors, Commissioner Daniel Werfel told Congress today in an attempt to allay fears of a weaponized tax agency.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 granted the IRS $80 billion to hire tens of thousands of additional employees sparking fears that a horde of armed auditors would be unleashed on the American public.
“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa?” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a televised 2022 interview.
“Stop Biden’s shadow army of 87,000 IRS agents,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote on Twitter in attempt to stop the IRA from passing….