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A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building May 4, 2021, in Washington. On Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at IRS headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

IRS commissioner: AI will play growing role in future tax collection

By Staff - The Washington Times

Private jets sit parked at Scottsdale Airport Jan. 27, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz. IRS leadership said Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, that the agency will start up dozens of audits on businesses' private jets and how they are used personally by executives and written off as a tax deduction — as part of the agency's ongoing mission of going after high-wealth tax cheats who game the tax system at the expense of American taxpayers. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

IRS announces new audit of corporate jets in crackdown on wealthy tax cheats

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen, May 4, 2021, in Washington. The amount of tax money owed but not paid to the IRS is set to keep growing, according to projections published by the federal tax collection agency on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS says pandemic is over, collection notices will start again in 2024

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Internal Revenue Service taxes forms are seen on Feb. 13, 2019. The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by President Biden will have U.S. taxpayers one step closer to a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

IRS to hire 3,700 new employees to audit the wealthy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Matt Taibbi, left, with Michael Shellenberger, testifies before House Select Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

IRS agents stop making surprise house calls; visit to journalist raises questions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, on March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

IRS ponders changes to lower audit rate for Black taxpayers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel speaks during his swearing-in ceremony at the agency's headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

New IRS chief promises ‘several years’ before most Americans face higher audit rates

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel speaks during his swearing-in ceremony at the agency's headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

IRS reveals plans to spend $80 billion in new cash

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen congratulates new IRS commissioner Danny Werfel after the swearing-in at the IRS headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

New IRS leader promises faster, easier tax filing process

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

FILE - A sign hangs outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, on May 4, 2021. The IRS issued guidance Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, recommending that taxpayers hold off on filing their tax returns for 2022 if they received a special tax refund or payment from their state last year due to the agency’s uncertainty about the taxability of the payments. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS nominee faces herculean challenge of modernizing agency

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

** FILE ** Acting Internal Revenue Service chief Danny Werfel. (Associated Press)

IRS spied on tea party after granting tax-exempt status

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

**FILE** Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

House GOP accuses IRS of obstructing investigation into abuse of power

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

IRS report: We weren’t politically pressured; new chief halts screening criteria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel (right) talks with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, prior to testifying before the committee on Thursday. (Associated Press)

New IRS chief sets out to win confidence

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Danny Werfel (left), the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General, appear before the House Appropriations Oversight Committee on the IRS in Washington on June 3, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

IRS acting chief Danny Werfel vows to fix ‘trust’ in agency

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Columnist Ernest Istook says Congress, on its own, has clear authority to arrest and jail former IRS official Lois Lerner until she testifies. (Associated Press)

Lois Lerner second IRS figure removed amid scandal

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

**FILE** Danny Werfel (Associated Press)

White House tells agencies to protect priorities in sequester

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Danny Werfel (Associated Press)

Federal bonuses are early casualty in sequestration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times