"Efforts to increase tax fairness and bring in revenue from high-end taxpayers who have not paid what they owe are already paying off to the American people," Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said during a briefing with reporters.
The IRS targeted 1,600 taxpayers with more than 1 million dollars of income who owed more than 250,000 dollars in tax debt. Daniel Werfel, the IRS commissioner, said that he believed many rich taxpayers had neglected to pay their bills because they thought the IRS did not have the capacity to go after them.
The IRS is also focused on finding more than 100,000 high-wealth individuals who the agency believes have not filed taxes in years. And it has been ramping up audits of hedge funds and real estate investment partnerships and cracking down on abuse of corporate jets for personal travel.
Despite these efforts, the IRS had been too slow to resolve identity theft cases and that it was not doing a good enough job answering the phones when taxpayers called with questions, according to The New York Times on Thursday.
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