Chuck Darwin<p>The IRS has 👍collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, <br>the agency announced Friday, crediting ❇️spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022.</p><p>Treasury Secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Janet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Janet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yellen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yellen</span></a> and IRS Commissioner <a href="https://c.im/tags/Danny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Danny</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Werfel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Werfel</span></a> traveled to Austin, Texas, to tour an IRS campus and <br>announce the latest milestone in tax collections as 🆘Republicans warn of big future budget cuts for the tax agency if they take over the White House and Congress.</p><p>Yellen said in a speech in Austin that in 2019, 🔥the top one percent of wealthy Americans owed more than one-fifth of all unpaid taxes, “leaving ordinary Americans to shoulder the burden.”</p><p>⭐️“To fix this, we’ve channeled IRS funding toward significant investments to combat tax evasion,” she said.<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/irs-treasury-tax-wealth-ira-2932f286c89b19b9ccecaaca2f4f2c2b" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/irs-treasur</span><span class="invisible">y-tax-wealth-ira-2932f286c89b19b9ccecaaca2f4f2c2b</span></a></p>