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Many of the new hires “will be auditors, focused on significantly increasing the number of audits on higher-income individuals and corporations,” Bush added. “Most of the 87,000 anticipated new hires will replace those retiring employees across the organization.” and China, with 50% of their most senior workforce eligible to retire in the next five years,” Bush said. The agency’s “demographics are worse than the U.S. The vast majority of this additional enforcement activity is likely to be targeted at high-income individuals and businesses, which is where an outsized portion of tax revenue comes from.”Īkabas added that “it’s hard to believe that not a dollar of that new activity will reach lower- or middle-income individuals, but I certainly wouldn’t expect an army of new IRS agents going after the middle class.” More Than Just Auditsīoth Bush and Akabas agree that the IRS has a high attrition rate. Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told ThinkAdvisor Thursday in an email that IRS audit rates “have fallen precipitously in recent years, so adding staff to that portion of the agency is overdue. This is an easily measurable statistic with two data points (tax years 20) between now and the 2024 election. If the promise is broken, the Republicans will be able to make it a legitimate campaign issue.” Army of Agents The bottom line, Bush opines, “is time will tell.