President Biden’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service pledged in a Senate confirmation hearing not to increase audits on middle- and working-class taxpayers, and to prioritize the agency’s new resources to improve customer service.
The White House tapped Daniel Werfel, a longtime federal budget official who briefly served as acting IRS commissioner in 2013, to lead the tax agency as it receives an additional $80 billion over 10 years to revitalize its operations, increase enforcement on wealthy taxpayers and corporations, and modernize its decades-old information technology infrastructure. The money was approved as part of the Inflation Reduction Act backed by Biden and congressional Democrats.
“If confirmed, Mr. Werfel, you must be the change agent we have long been promised,” Sen. Mike Crapo , the Senate Finance Committee’s top Republican, said during the hearing.Before the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law last year, the IRS lacked resources for years to improve its most basic IT tax-collection programs as congressional Republicans cut funding for tax agency.
The IRS does expect to hire many new replacements over the next decade as it loses tens of thousands of employees to retirement — its workforce is among the oldest in the federal government. “I am committed to Secretary Yellen’s directive on how the audits should move forward under the Inflation Reduction Act,” Werfel said.
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