Laura Saunders
speaker
5,937 appearances
109 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Nov 2024
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And this is controversial, but I don't think Congress is going to change it.
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Well, certainly if you're planning to make a large political donation, I think you should get tax advice before you make it.
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Now, if it's a donation of $100 or $200 or $50, it probably doesn't matter quite as much.
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And thanks so much for having me.
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The IRS has to hire and staff up.
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It has to train people.
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It's a tight labor market, and it's
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It can take three to five years for a top auditor to be fully trained and productive.
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Well, it gets new agents, it gets new funding for systems modernization, for technology.
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You know, the IRS is auditing far fewer people than it did 10 years ago, and that's good for tax cheats and not good for honest taxpayers.
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And its workforce is aging.
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It's losing about 50,000 people over the next few years for attrition.
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And so the law calls for hiring about 87,000 people over 10 years.
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Many will replace people that are leaving.
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Yes.
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The rationale for the new funding is that the IRS's resources are so depleted that they need to be rebuilt.
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They're using computers from the early 1960s.
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When a machine breaks, it's no longer made, and so somebody has to fashion special parts for it.
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The idea, supporters say, is that this money will allow the IRS to do its job.
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Well, there won't be 87,000 new IRS agents with guns.
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