Fueling America, One Tax Return at a Time

IRS Collects taxes, provides taxpayer assistance and education, and dispute resolution.  They even provide free tax return filing.   Direct file was launched in 12 states and in 2024 141,000 people filed their taxes for free, saving as estimated $160 per filer.  The program was to be expanded to 25 states in 2025.  Saving you money by allowing you to file for FREE! 

But, Republicans don’t want you to be able to do that.  They would rather collect your fees for themselves through the companies they own.  Republicans want to eliminate free filing and reduce taxpayer assistant by firing IRS personnel!  

Without people in the IRS, nobody will collect taxes.  That’s just the way Republicans want it.  They don’t want to pay taxes themselves!   

“One paper estimated that the top 1% of earners are responsible for nearly 30% of unpaid taxes – according to Budget Lab calculations and projection of the latest tax gap numbers that would total about $205 billion annually.”* 

In 2024, “the IRS announced that it had collected $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from millionaire households. In many cases, these were individuals who simply did not even bother to file their tax returns.”**   

Without audits and enforcement, millionaires and billionaires won’t be paying the taxes they owe. 

Every person and company must pay taxes.  It’s one of the few sure things in life.  We believe that rich people and corporations should pay the taxes they owe.  Call your senators and your US representative and tell them to fully staff the IRS and keep existing IRS agents employed, and FUND the IRS.

References:

1.     New IRS Funding boosted tax enforcement and improved taxpayer services during Biden administration   https://news.clemson.edu/new-irs-funding-boosted-tax-enforcement-and-improved-taxpayer-services-during-the-biden-administration/

2.     IRS criminal referrals to US prosecutors hit a 40-year low in 2024 https://www.icij.org/news/2024/12/irs-criminal-referrals-to-us-prosecutors-hit-a-40-year-low-in-2024/

3.      A brief history of income taxes in USA https://digitalasset.intuit.com/HTML/A3wCXKqpM/BriefHistoryofIncomeTaxesUS.html

4.      *The Revenue and Distributional Effects of IRS Funding | The Budget Lab at Yale https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/revenue-and-distributional-effects-irs-funding

5.    The IRS free tax-filing program Direct File saved users $160 each. Now it may come to an end. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-direct-file-taxes-trump-elizabeth-warren-letter-democrats/

6.    ** Defunding the IRS Would Cost Taxpayers – ITEP                                                  https://itep.org/defunding-the-irs-would-cost-taxpayers/