WASHINGTON DC (June 5, 2020) — The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently found that almost 900,000 high-income tax-payers failed to file tax returns from 2014 to 2016, resulting in billions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and the IRS did not attempt to collect in several hundred thousand of these cases of noncompliance during the Obama administration. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) is seeking information from the IRS on how so many tax dollars went uncollected and why the previous administration made so little effort to address the issue.
“The IRS should make sure its enforcement efforts are fair across the board. No one at any income level should ever think they are safe in cheating on their taxes,” Sen Grassley wrote.
In a letter sent today to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Sen Grassley is seeking a better understanding of these collections failures, and specifically the criteria under which the IRS chose to discontinue collections efforts.
Full text of Sen Grassley’s letter to Commissioner Rettig follows or can be found HERE.
