IRS Hires 4,000 Customer Service Reps, Citing Inflation Reduction Act

[James48]

From http://GovExec.Com


Hiring surge for enforcement personnel likely coming next.

ERIC KATZ | OCTOBER 28, 2022
IRS
HIRING
The Internal Revenue Service is already putting its cash infusion to use, hiring 4,000 customer service representatives from the new funding it received as part of the Democrats’ major climate change, health care and tax legislation.

The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law in August, will—with great notoriety—provide $80 billion to the tax agency over the next 10 years. A 2021 Treasury Department report suggested IRS could use the funding to hire up to 87,000 employees, which generated significant backlash—and significant backlash to the backlash.

Republican lawmakers cited the figure to highlight their opposition to the bill and to suggest Democrats were ushering in a new wave of audits and other IRS-initiated harassment. The hiring will not, in practice, grow the size of the IRS as much as the bill’s detractors have claimed: much of it will go to backfilling vacancies and replacing the up to 50,000 employees expected to leave the agency in the next few years.

More: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/10/irs-hires-4000-customer-service-reps-citing-inflation-reduction-act/379064/

[republianmushroom]

1. YES

[Lovie777]

2. Wait . ... .

The GQP said it would 87 thousand.

[former9thward]

6. The IRS is hiring 87,000 new positions over 10 years.

The landmark $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug. 16 earmarks about $80 billion for the IRS to hire as many as 87,000 employees. But how the agency will use that money is not finalized.

The 87,000 figure comes from a year-old Treasury Department assessment of how many full-time equivalent positions could be funded with the roughly $80 billion. Any additions will come as an expected 50,000 people are on track to retire in the next five to six years.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/08/28/fact-checking-claim-about-the-number-of-new-irs-workers/65418589007/

[blm]

3. Not 87,000 armed agents coming to take your house at gunpoint?

The Republican billboards are lying? Nooooo.

[BlueIdaho]

4. The inflation reduction act

Is metered out over ten years. I guess your local neighborhood fascists didn’t bother to mention that fact.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Job Creation!

[James48]

7. Customer Service Reps

To answer the phone.

Well, it’s at least a start.

[MichMan]

8. If the hirings are to fill current open positions due to attrition, why did they need $80 billion ?

Wouldn't funding for those positions already be budgeted ?