President Donald Trump’s mass firing of some 6,700 Internal Revenue Service employees, many, if not most, of whom are directly involved in collecting unpaid taxes, is a mistake, seven former commissioners of the IRS wrote on Monday in an op-ed in The New York Times.
They said that aggressive cuts to the IRS’ collection capacity will only lower the amount of tax revenue coming in, which will in turn boost the U.S. deficit and add to our $36 trillion in debt.
The former IRS commissioners emphasized that “aggressive reductions in the IRS’ collection capacity will only render our government less effective and less efficient in collecting the taxes Congress has imposed. It will shift the burden of funding the government from people who shirk their taxes to the honest people who pay them, and it will impede efforts by the IRS to modernize customer service and simplify the tax filing process for everyone.”
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