Rep. Mann votes to defund Biden Administration's 87,000 new IRS agent watchdogs

Washington, D.C. - Last night, Representative Mann voted to defund the Biden Administration's 87,000 new IRS agent watchdogs. The Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act pushes back on President Biden and Washington Democrats’ falsely named Inflation Reduction Act and would rescind $72 billion of funding to the IRS, reversing the agency's plan to hire 87,000 new agents.

"Kansas families and small businesses are already paying the price of President Biden’s inflation tax,” said Rep. Mann. “The last thing we need is 87,000 more IRS agents and 1.2 million more audits. I voted yes on the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act because it’s a clear-cut way to fight back against one of the most egregious pieces of legislation from the last Congress. The $72 billion of taxpayer money that Washington Democrats allocated to the IRS last year would have ballooned the agency to a size larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Control combined. 

Last year, we tried to reason with our colleagues across the aisle to at least put protections in place for lower- and middle-income families, but Washington Democrats refused to accept our terms. This legislation won’t allow their 87,000-person audit army to harass Americans and invade their privacy.”

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Washington Democrats’ supercharged IRS will cause audit rates to “rise for all taxpayers” and a conservative analysis shows that returning audit rates to 2010 levels would mean 1.2 million more audits with over 700,000 of those falling on taxpayers making $75,000 or less.

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