Republican appropriators in the House are proposing to scale back IRS funding and to do away with the free online tax filing system that the Treasury Department recently made permanent and promised to expand to additional states.
The latest financial services and general government (FSGG) bill from the House Appropriations Committee promises to “[prohibit] funds to be used for the IRS to create a government-run tax preparation software that Congress has not authorized.”
It also reduces IRS funding for 2025 by $2.2 billion below the fiscal year 2024 level to $10.1 billion, slashing enforcement funding in particular by $2 billion.
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Democrats immediately blasted the IRS funding cuts.
“If Republicans have the opportunity, they will deprive law-abiding taxpayers of the choice to file their taxes for free with the IRS’s new direct file program by shutting it down before it expands nationwide,” Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a statement Tuesday.
Need more be said? Yet another example of republicans politicians repealing an objectively good thing to fatten someone else’s pockets at the expense of the average person.
Shout out to Wyden!
@Coffee_Addict the only thing conservatives hate more than taxes is tax filing software. I don’t understand how any of this makes any sense to their constituency.
They want to defund the IRS in general. They like the 3rd party software because then they can invest and and ensure the numbers go up.
A bunch of cunts, really.
