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WASHINGTON President Trump has a rocky history with the Internal Revenue Service, which he has complained audits him with unfair ferocity. Now he wants to significantly cut the tax agencys funding at a time when it has already been bleeding staff and struggling to keep up with a flood of returns ahead of Tax Day.
The plans, revealed this week in documents associated with the White House budget outline, put Mr. Trump at odds with his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, who has argued that the I.R.S. needs more money and a larger staff.
Another round of cuts, tax experts say, could put one of the few federal departments that pay for themselves on life support.
This is an agency that has had every last drop squeezed out of it, said Dennis J. Ventry Jr., a member of the I.R.S. advisory council and a law professor at the University of California, Davis. I dont know how its going to sustain itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/trump-mnuchin-irs.html?_r=0
marybourg
(12,584 posts)audited again. In fact, this may be why he wanted to be President.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)In fact since rich people will not have to pay taxes the working poor and lower middle class will have to pay the most. We will be tight friends with them. I mean come on, this is just Trumps way of making it so we are on a first name bases when we have to see them every year to get screwed out of more money.
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)"That makes me smart"
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)that tRump does not know which amendment introduced taxes on a permanent basis and when the amendment was added.