CBO Report Commissioned by Sanders Finds Wealthy Tax Cheats the Prime Beneficiaries of IRS Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON, July 8—Today, at the request of Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report, “Trends in the Internal Revenue Service’s Funding and Enforcement,” examining the causes of hundreds of billions of dollars in annual tax avoidance and evasion, facilitated by budget cuts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). CBO found that