With the IRS' deadline for tax filing season 2024 counting down to midnight, the Treasury Department reported Monday that $80 billion additional funding from the Inflation Reduction Act meant the IRS had easily exceeded new targets.
OpEd: The Inflation Reduction Act Unleashes A Tougher IRS (August 2022)
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... Only the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS can carry guns, but the IRS has been buying more guns and ammunition in recent years, snapping up nearly $700,000 in ammo in early 2022. The bullet buy prompted Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Jeff Duncan (R-SC) to introduce the "Disarm the IRS Act," to prohibit the IRS from buying ammunition.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted, "87,000 IRS agents will be hired with $80 billion taxpayer dollars when the Senate Reconciliation bill passes this weekend. And they're buying more guns & ammo too.
Lower to middle income Americans & small businesses will be the primary targets of Democrat's new IRS force." ...
All of the IRS processing centers are in red states-KY, MO, OH, TX, NC and Utah.
Odd.
Why Odd??
Sounds like it was announced in Sept 2016.
"consolidation was announced in September 2016"
The closures are a part of consolidation efforts which began in 2003 under then serving IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson. Those efforts led to a consolidation of ten sites into five locations that process paper tax returns: locations were Covington, Kentucky/Cincinnati; Fresno, California; Austin, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; and Ogden, Utah. Following the closures announced this fall, only two sites that process paper returns would remain open after 2024: Kansas City, Missouri, and Ogden, Utah.
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Who mails in their returns? I haven't since I have been in the US.
phlegm
www.cancer.gov
... A more than normal amount of thick mucus made by the cells lining the upper airways and lungs. A buildup of phlegm may be caused by infection, irritation, or chronic lung disease, and can cause discomfort in the chest and coughing. ...
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