IRS $80 Billion Roadmap Tees Up Congressional Funding Fight

The IRS plan for spending its $80 billion contains a warning: The windfall won’t be nearly as effective if Congress doesn’t also provide the agency with adequate annual funding.

It will “need an ongoing investment on top of the allocated IRA funding” to deliver the needed transformation, the agency said in its plan, released Thursday. That supplemental money isn’t a substitute for annual appropriations, the IRS said, and some of its improved services will start being impacted if lawmakers don’t maintain funding levels adjusted for inflation.

The statements amount to a retort to Republicans who now control the House, ...