IRS to Spend $80 Billion to Increase Staffing, Upgrade Technology: Deputy Treasury Secretary

The IRS will spend $80 billion over the next 10 years to increase staffing and upgrade technology in an effort to make the agency easier to deal with and fairer for all taxpayers.
“The IRS is committed to continuing to make investments so that you can deal with the IRS in an easier way going forward,” Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the Treasury, told attendees at a tax forum in Washington on April 17.
At the same time, the agency expects to step up tax enforcement on the nation’s highest earners, who collectively underpay their taxes by an estimated $160 billion per year, according to Adeyemo. That’s more than the combined U.S. spending on the administration of justice, natural resources and the environment, and science, space, and technology….}