The IRS Is Seeking 'Armed' And 'Fit' Agents 'Willing To Use Deadly Force'

It seems the IRS has wasted no time in posting job openings for its 87,000 new agents that were made possible with the massive $700 dollar package that is said to reduce inflation but instead will raise taxes on the middle class. If there was any question as to why there were purchasing so much ammo, that question is now answered. There is no doubt the IRS will also be weaponized to go after political opponents as they have in the past with conservative groups. It looks like are coming strapped to take your meager savings for real this time.

The Democrats passed a new $700+ billion spending bill this month during a recession with inflation at 9.1%.

The bill will add 87,000 new IRS employees to harass and abuse working Americans and their political opponents.

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a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Cool.

Sounds vaguely familiar to a tea party many moons ago.

Is this also part the the counter inflation spending?

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

This is a posting for one position within a Federal entity that currently employs around 75k full-time employees. The Criminal Investigation division of the IRS has been around for a long time.

Just wait until you learn about USPIS. 🙄

EDIT TO ADD:

The funding is for approximately 87k employees total and not 87k additional, mostly replacing retirees.

The American Famlies Plan Tax Complaience Agenda (PDF warning)

The IRS’s enforcement budget decreased by 15% over this time period, leading to a 20% decline in the IRS workforce.
These losses have been most significant for revenue officers who collect taxes (50% decrease) and revenue agents who audit
complex returns (35% decrease). Today, the IRS has fewer auditors than at any time since World War II. As experienced employees
have retired, the IRS has been unable to replace departing workers with new revenue officers and with agents of comparable training
and skills necessary to pursue the most complicated noncompliance cases.

And the question still remains:

Why is an agency that is not part of law enforcement or the military given any authority at all to detain, arrest, or shoot a citizen of the Unites States?

They are accountants and bookkeepers FFS!

originally posted by: cmdrkeenkid
a reply to: v1rtu0s0

This is a posting for one position within a Federal entity that currently employs around 75k full-time employees. The Criminal Investigation division of the IRS has been around for a long time.

Just wait until you learn about USPIS. 🙄

I know you can't wait to defend the IRS, but this is just the beginning. We know they will have many more openings like this.

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Nope. I'd much prefer the IRS didn't exist, but it does and there's not much to be done about that. Nice try, bub.

Just ran across this...
IRS Job Page Removed After Alarming Description of the Special Agent Position Got Exposed

The link got taken down, but given what has transpired at the IRS, the FBI, and the DOJ—it sure looks like the organs of the state are mustering for armed confrontation with the Left’s political enemies. Let’s not forget that the IRS got busted for targeting conservative non-profits in 2013. The recent spending bill passed by Senate Democrats aims to appropriate $80 billion to the IRS, which even former commissioners admit won’t be spent efficiently, but it will add another 87,000 employees to the agency to apparently go on search and destroy missions if we don’t pay our taxes.

Well at least we know what we need to be to be prepared... Kind Of? We will need ammo and weapons... We will need to all participate in crossfit and HIIT and eat super, Super awesome health diet. As best as we can to follow the job descriptions

originally posted by: Klassified
Just ran across this...
IRS Job Page Removed After Alarming Description of the Special Agent Position Got Exposed

The link got taken down, but given what has transpired at the IRS, the FBI, and the DOJ—it sure looks like the organs of the state are mustering for armed confrontation with the Left’s political enemies. Let’s not forget that the IRS got busted for targeting conservative non-profits in 2013. The recent spending bill passed by Senate Democrats aims to appropriate $80 billion to the IRS, which even former commissioners admit won’t be spent efficiently, but it will add another 87,000 employees to the agency to apparently go on search and destroy missions if we don’t pay our taxes.

So basically they need to be much more secretive about these postings but now we know they exist.

Will they at least get sinister black uniforms?

a reply to: cmdrkeenkid

You have a point. The IRS, and yes the USPS both have armed officers.


However, riddle me this, why did the IRS buy $700,000 on ammo, speculated at around 5 million rounds just this year which is equatable to what they spend from the years of 2010-2017?

The expansion of the Gestapo is going as planned,

But once we get the house back, the funding will be stopped, and the new hires will become new unemployed.

Poetic justice.

originally posted by: Klassified
And the question still remains:

Why is an agency that is not part of law enforcement or the military given any authority at all to detain, arrest, or shoot a citizen of the Unites States?

They are accountants and bookkeepers FFS!

Your statement is rife with ignorance.

Firstly, the military does not have the authority to detain or arrest a citizen of the United States. Not even the military police, typically, when outside of a base. However, MPs do depend greatly on jurisdiction. Some municipalities have "concurrent jurisdiction" which is essentially the MPs acting in a deputized civil manner and can arrest and prosecute in a civil manner, in civil courts. However, this is not acting in a military capacity.

Secondly, many Federal agencies have little known law enforcement divisions. I already mentioned one within this thread, but here are some more:
NIH-DP (National Institutes of Health Division of Police)
OEE (Office of Export Enforcement)
USMP (United States Mint Police)
OST (Office of Secure Transportation)

There are dozens more. All have Federal legal jurisdictions. All agencies are more than their base employment (ie the IRS being all "accountants and bookkeepers").

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: cmdrkeenkid
However, riddle me this, why did the IRS buy $700,000 on ammo, speculated at around 5 million rounds just this year which is equatable to what they spend from the years of 2010-2017?

Do the math. In seven years they spent roughly $700k on five million rounds of ammo. That's an average of $100k for 715k rounds of ammo annually. There are roughly 2k armed agents within IRS-CI.

That means each agent would have received about 360 rounds paid for by the department annually.

Do some range time and get back with me on how quickly 360 rounds lasts.

EDIT TO ADD:

Sorry, misread.

You claim five million rounds this year. That changes the math to give the agents 2500 rounds each.

That's more than a day at the range, sure. But going to the range once or twice a week to maintain proficiency within their line of work? Maybe a month or two that'll last. That's nothing.


EDIT TO ADD:

Here's a link to the GAO report where what you said probably got the data from. It's on document page 30.

FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammunition, and Tactical Equipment --- HHS, EPA, and IRS Reported Varying Levels of Inventories of Firearms, Corresponding Ammunition and Limited Tactical Equipment (PDF warning)

The new uniforms that the IRS agents will require to wear, while persecuting hard working Americans.

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Apparently you are not very familiar with the revenue collection measures employed as standard operating procedures by individual States.

Every State that collects personal, business (corporate/partnership), or sales tax has a division whose agents are assigned firearms.

Quite obviously, this is due to the fact that their have been, and continue to be, criminals who have specifically evaded the tax laws in their State, and have shown to have either used violence, or are reasonably expected to employ violence against their State tax agents.

As a former (now retired) state tax agency employee, I have heard a number of stories wherein one, or more, of our collection teams came under weapons fire by drug dealers, bootleggers, and human traffickers while in the performance of their collection duties.

It us not surprising that the IRS would need similar capabilities.

a reply to: Mantiss2021

Yep because people, even criminals have large quantities of cash in their places of living, ready for the evil IRS to come and get them by force.

Yep I go it, maybe drug cartels do, but you know they do not pay any taxes.

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

I'm taking a wait and see approach here. I will be outraged with you if it seems they are targeting anyone just because of their political beliefs. However, I will be just fine if the new IRS agents just end up cracking down on crypto money laundering and going after the payroll protection program fraud.

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Starting pay $17 @ hour.

Job duration 2 months, until Republicans cancel the legislation.

a reply to: cmdrkeenkid

Clearly youve never seen FEDS nor LEOs shoot!

Regardless my question doesnt lie with supply or demand, its with the massive influx in quantity that outpaces hiring.