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Wealthy Tax Cheats Set to Benefit From Trump Plans to Halve IRS
About 12,000 employees have already left the agency under two efforts.
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Cutting IRS staffing in half over the next 10 months would mean less help and longer waits for many US taxpayers and increase the risk that wealthy tax cheats escape paying what they owe.
It also would leave the Internal Revenue Service with its smallest workforce since at least the 1960s, according to official IRS data.