They’re not coming after wealthy people. They’re coming after you.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky posted a video showing potential IRS agents training Friday and urged Americans to notice a billionaire wasn’t the target.
Notice the scenario in this IRS recruiting program is “taking down a landscape business owner who failed to properly report how he paid for his vehicles,” not “taking down a billionaire who uses the corporate jet for private trips.”pic.twitter.com/QXlHmDCoWb
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 19, 2022
The video showed potential IRS agents undergoing training in how to arrest someone suspected of tax evasion. In the scenario shown on the video, the suspected offender was the owner of a landscaping business who allegedly bought vehicles with funds not reported as part of the business.
The six-minute video by the Community Education Channel was posted on YouTube on April 1, 2022. The IRS Adrian Project was at Utah Tech University, then called Dixie State University, to recruit potential IRS agents, according to a release.
Legislation signed by President Joe Biden will provide the IRS with $80 billion to hire 87,000 new agents. Republicans and conservatives have been critical of the expansion, saying that the agents will target small businesses.
Democrats claim the new agents will target billionaires, but Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, noted that every Democrat voted against an amendment to limit audits to those making over $400,000 a year.
Criticism of the IRS also centered around the reported targeting of conservative groups and leaks of taxpayer data to ProPublica, a left-wing media outlet, in 2013 and 2021. Lois Lerner, a central figure in the allegations of targeting conservative groups, escaped criminal charges.
The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
William Henck, a former Internal Revenue Service lawyer who was forced out after making allegations of internal malfeasance, said the government will target middle-income Americans with new audits under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Henck, who worked at the IRS for 30 years until departing in 2017, slammed the IRS and others who have argued additional funding would only result in increased audits for billionaires and corporations. The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law , would nearly double the IRS’ budget, appropriating an additional $79 billion to the agency over the next decade.
“The idea that they’re going to open things up and go after these big billionaires and large corporations is quite frankly bulls–t,” Henck told FOX Business in an interview. “It’s not going to happen. They’re going to give themselves bonuses and promotions and really nice conferences.”
“The big corporations and the billionaires are probably sitting back laughing right now,” he continued.
……Americans with an annual income of less than $75,000 would be subject to nearly 711,000 new IRS audits under the legislation, according to a House GOP analysis that used historic audit rates. By comparison, individuals making more than $500,000 will receive about 95,000 additional audits as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act.
……“If you own a roofing company, you better count on getting audited because that’s what they’re going to be doing,” he continued. “They’re going to be going after your car dealerships, roofing companies.”
The IRS engaged in the deliberate suppression, harassment, and intimidation of patriotic and conservative groups, and those who focus on the Constitution and criticize government spending,
Lois Lerner used her position as IRS commissioner to target individuals because of their patriotic opposition to Obama.
The IRS is acting like a paramilitary wing of the Dem party.
The entire corrupt Biden regime including the corrupt DOJ, FBI, DHS and IRS need to be purged. They’re trampling all over the law and the constitution at will. Most Americans won’t pay attention to the erosion of civil liberties until it happens to them.