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Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement applauding the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Strategic Operating Plan for the Inflation Reduction Act:

“The Inflation Reduction Act is a transformational investment in regaining taxpayers’ trust, modernizing the IRS to provide world-class customer service, and eliminating the two-tiered tax system that has allowed the wealthy and well-connected to play by one set of rules and everyone else by another. As laid out today, it’s already hard at work. More customer service staff are in place and this filing season has ushered in levels of customer service that haven’t been seen in recent memory. Republicans used their first bill of the Congress to attempt to undo this progress and look out for their own. But soon, thanks to Democratic investment, the IRS will be better equipped to hold tax cheats accountable, recover taxes owed, and reduce the tax gap. Commissioner Werfel is the dedicated leader the IRS needs to implement this plan, and I look forward to working with him and the Biden Administration to deliver on the promise of the Inflation Reduction Act.”