Who Cut The IRS's Budget & Impacted Customer Service? Not Congress...

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...but the IRS itself.

Internal Revenue Service head John Koskinen blames Congress for cuts in customer service at the tax agency. But according to a new congressional report, it was the IRS that cut the funding for customer service.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has blamed the IRS’s “abysmal” customer service on congressional budget cuts–funding is down $1.2 billion from its 2010 peak–but a new congressional report points the finger back at the IRS. While congressional funding for the IRS remained flat from 2014 to 2015, the IRS diverted $134 million away from customer service to other activities.

In addition to the $11 billion appropriated by Congress, the IRS takes in more than $400 million in user fees and may allocate that money as it sees fit. In 2014, the IRS allocated $183 million in user fees to its customer service budget, but allocated just $49 million in 2015–a 76 percent cut.

Koskinen appeared before the Ways and Means Committee today and continued to blame Congress. Never mind that the cuts to the IRS budget were meant to address the big bonuses the tax agency gives out to employees and officials who abuse taxpayers.

....so put that in your pipe, statists, and smoke it!