The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency announced Friday, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel traveled to Austin, Texas, to tour an IRS campus and announce the latest milestone in tax collections as Republicans warn of big future budget cuts for the tax agency if they take over the White House and Congress.
Yellen said in a speech in Austin that in 2019, the top one percent of wealthy Americans owed more than one-fifth of all unpaid taxes, “leaving ordinary Americans to shoulder the burden.”
For-profit framing of public services is indeed a problem, as we can see with prisons too. Probably, it’s better to call their avoided taxes stolen money, money stolen from regular citizen, and the return on them as a punishment for theft. And then point out how many investments in public infrastructure and services could’ve been done for these money: in miles of roads not layed, in new schools not built, - and that’s the same weight goes onto shoulders of regular Joes who millionaires stole them from. And insist that this kind of theft should be punished, for if regular americans are obligated to suffer the tax filling and paying process, it’s unfair these chuds with hired accountants and lawyers don’t.