“We’re kind of like the NFL referee — when we get the call right or wrong, we get booed, and we’re OK with that,” Werfel said in a wide-ranging interview.
More than 170 million notices, often long and filled with legal jargon, are sent out annually to taxpayers regarding credits, deductions and taxes owed.
Along with the $122 million from delinquent millionaires in October, nearly half a billion dollars in back taxes from rich tax cheats has been collected.
The agreement speeds up the roughly $20 billion in cuts already agreed to for the Internal Revenue Service and rescinds about $6 billion in COVID relief.
With the electronic free file tax return system starting in 2024, the agency will be able to process everything, including tax returns, digitally by 2025.