IRS Chief Says House Spending Cuts Would Help Tax Cheats
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Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman told lawmakers that the House-passed spending bill would weaken his agency’s ability to fight tax cheating.
If the bill passed Feb. 20 becomes law, the “IRS would need to make substantial immediate cuts to its enforcement programs,” Shulman said during a House appropriations subcommittee hearing today in Washington.