2026年4月15日 16:17:44 UTC / 路透社
作者：雅各布·博吉奇
2026年4月15日 下午4:17 UTC 更新于4小时前
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美国国税局（IRS）大楼，摄于2020年9月28日，美国华盛顿。路透社/艾琳·斯科特/资料图片 购买授权，打开新标签页
- 摘要
- 2025年大规模裁员后，IRS执法收入下降5%
- 政府效能部主导了IRS裁员行动
- 专家警告称，IRS裁员会将审计转向低收入纳税人，损害高端税务合规
华盛顿，4月15日（路透社）——政府数据显示，特朗普政府2025年大幅减少了对逃税者的追查力度，美国国税局裁减了数万名员工，其中包括负责执法的人员。
路透社通过《信息自由法》获取的数据显示，本财年通过执法行动收缴的收入下降了5%，即近50亿美元。美国国税局内部监察机构纳税人维权服务处报告称，2025年该机构启动的税务审计比前一年减少了逾12万次。
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税务执法收缴的绝大多数收入来自未缴余额。审计往往是耗时数年的流程，不会立即带来收入。
财政部官员告诉路透社，在始于10月1日的2026财年前五个月，IRS的执法收入增长了12%。
政府效能部——由唐纳德·特朗普总统创立、亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克领导的现已解散的裁员机构——主导了IRS的大规模裁员，波及该税务机构的各个部门。
但根据该机构的预算预测，IRS执法部门在2026年初流失了约5000名员工，并且在未来一年还将再裁减5000人。
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IRS局长兼社会保障管理局专员弗兰克·比西尼亚诺周三对参议院财政委员会表示，该税务机构正在审查“税收缺口”，即应缴未缴的税款总额，以确定其中有多少是“可追回的”。
专家表示，彻底消除税收缺口，需要IRS采取比美国民众普遍习惯的方式更为激进的行动。
比西尼亚诺表示，他将很快向委员会提交“一项降低税收缺口的计划，届时将获得所需的资源和技术”来追回未缴税款。
IRS的这些举措实质上取消了拜登政府的一项标志性成就——向该机构拨款数百亿美元，以加强对大型企业和富裕个人的税务审查。
据美国财政部税务管理监察长办公室的数据，在拜登政府执政期间，IRS雇员人数曾达到峰值10.3万人。该机构的目标是在2027财年（始于10月1日）将雇员人数降至约6.9万人。
在获得这笔拨款之前，IRS多年来一直陷入财政困境，因为国会共和党人阻挠了为该机构提供的资金，而这些资金本可用于帮助其更新过时的技术系统并留住高技能员工。
纳税人维权服务处报告称，这导致IRS将执法重点从企业和富裕个人转向低收入纳税人，因为对他们进行审计的成本更低。
耶鲁大学预算实验室（一家金融智库）主席兼联合创始人娜塔莎·萨林表示：“我认为该机构可能遭受了无法挽回的损害，因为我们并非从一个现代化的、旨在针对高收入群体进行税务合规管理的体系起步。”
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Tax enforcement weakened after Trump job cuts, IRS data shows
2026-04-15 16:17:44 UTC / Reuters
By Jacob Bogage
April 15, 2026 4:17 PM UTC Updated 4 hours ago
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- Summary
- IRS enforcement revenue fell 5% in 2025 after mass staffing cuts
- DOGE oversaw IRS staffing reductions
- Experts warn IRS cuts shift audits to low-income taxpayers, harm high-end compliance
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – The Trump administration dramatically reduced efforts to pursue tax cheats in 2025, government data shows, shedding tens of thousands of employees at the Internal Revenue Service, including those charged with enforcement.
The result was a 5% decline in revenue collected through enforcement actions, or almost $5 billion, in the fiscal year, according to data obtained by Reuters through the Freedom of Information Act. The agency opened more than 120,000 fewer tax audits, opens new tab in 2025 than in the year prior, the Taxpayer Advocate Service, the IRS’ internal watchdog, reported.
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The vast majority of revenue collected through tax enforcement comes from unpaid balances. Audits are often years-long processes that do not immediately yield revenue.
Treasury Department officials told Reuters that the IRS has seen a 12% increase in enforcement revenue in the first five months of the 2026 fiscal year, which began October 1.
The Department of Government Efficiency, the now-defunct cost-cutting agency created by President Donald Trump and led by billionaire Elon Musk, oversaw mass staffing cuts at the IRS that carved into every aspect of the tax agency.
But the IRS’s enforcement arm lost roughly 5,000 of its employees headed into 2026 and is on track to cut another 5,000 in the coming year, according to the agency’s budget projection.
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Frank Bisignano, the CEO of the IRS and Social Security Administration Commissioner, told the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday that the tax agency was reviewing the “tax gap,” or the amount of taxes owed but not paid, to see what quantity is “addressable.”
Completely eliminating the tax gap, experts say, would require the IRS to act far more aggressively than Americans are generally used to.
Bisignano said he would soon return to the committee with “a plan to drive the number down and you’ll have the resources allocated and the technology” to recoup the unpaid sums.
The moves at the IRS essentially wipe out one of the Biden administration’s signature achievements, sending tens of billions of dollars to the agency to increase tax scrutiny of major corporations and wealthy individuals.
At its height during the Biden administration, the IRS employed 103,000 people, opens new tab, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. It aims to employ about 69,000 by the 2027 fiscal year, which begins October 1.
Before that infusion of cash, the IRS had struggled for years with its finances as Republicans in Congress blocked funding for the agency intended to help it maintain its outdated technology systems and retain high-skilled staff.
That led the IRS to move enforcement away from businesses and wealthy individuals and toward low-income taxpayers whom it costs less to audit, the Taxpayer Advocate Service has reported.
“I think that the agency has suffered potentially irreparable harm because it wasn’t as if we were starting off from a system of tax administration that was modernized and set up to pursue compliance on the high end of the income spectrum,” said Natasha Sarin, the president and cofounder of the Yale Budget Lab, a financial think tank.
Reporting by Jacob Bogage, Editing by Nick Zieminski
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