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In a letter to the editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune, National President Tony Reardon agreed that the paper had gotten it right in calling on Congress to stop withholding funds from the IRS.
In an editorial, Utah’s largest newspaper said that efforts by some in the House of Representatives to force the resignation of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen by starving the agency of money needed to end.
Reardon wrote that “by cutting the IRS’ budget by $900 million over the past six years, Congress has forced the IRS to cut its workforce by more than 20 percent” and pointed out that taxpayers are the ones who end up suffering when Congress decides to punish the IRS.
“There aren't enough IRS employees to answer taxpayers' questions, whether people call in or come to walk-in sites. Staffing shortages are chronic throughout the IRS even as the number of taxpayers keeps rising and tax scams grow,” he wrote in the Aug. 6 letter.
Reardon concluded the letter this way: “IRS employees are dedicated and committed to serving the public. Congress needs to stop punishing them and the taxpayers they work so hard to help.”