Cameron Kinsey

Because President Trump is back in office, they somehow get a free pass when it comes to taxes or filing requirements.

Some people just assume because there's different policy priorities, that means that the IRS is going to ease up or that enforcement will slow down.

And those people could not be more wrong, unfortunately.

The IRS still has a mandate to collect revenue regardless of who is president.

So that idea that you can ignore the violence.

This is so important.

Exactly.

Historically, the IRS has focused most of its aggressive collection efforts on taxpayers who owed maybe $50,000 or more.

That was often the threshold where you saw liens, levies, enforcement actions escalate.

What we're seeing now, as of recent years, has been a shift.

The IRS has been becoming more aggressive with people who owe far less.

We're seeing enforcement actions

for smaller balances, increased pressure over unfiled tax returns, faster escalation timelines.

I mean, it's truly BS, Steve.

So if you haven't filed in years, that alone can trigger enforcement.

And that's not the IRS slowing down.

And when agencies face

workforce reduction or restructuring like they have under Trump's administration during the transition, the remaining employees often become more efficiency driven because, well, they don't want to get fired.

So that can mean faster processing for them, more targeted enforcement, greater focus on collections.

So the idea of fewer agents means less enforcement is just simply not the reality.