IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel says in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press the federal tax collector will expand its pursuit of high-wealth tax dodgers with new initiatives in the coming months.
who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your fair share so “others aren’t shouldering the burden of funding our government.": “Get it done.
But efforts to crack down on high-wealth tax cheats are starting to bite, he says, and that should mean more money coming in to fund the government. ”We are not," he said. “We are hiring phone assisters armed only with phone headsets. We’re hiring accountants armed only with calculators.” Werfel has been in a race against time to show how improvements to the agency can benefit taxpayers. He said agency priorities include customer service improvements like answering the phones faster and making sure the rich “pay their fair share."
The Direct File rollout has drawn some consternation from commercial software firms like Intuit, as well as Republicans who argue there are free filing programs that already exist.
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