Its all over YouTube. Reliable people broke the news few days ago. ( like 'guns & gadgets' )  Also Matt Gaetz was talking about it in an interview on fox, and hes going to try to stop it.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyGlmSHdANs )

Sat Jun 25 2022 09:04:07 PM EDT from zelgomer

What? Source? IRS is a private org, not even American owned I don't think. Which, by the way, is sketchy as hell if true.

Sat Jun 25 2022 09:04:07 PM EDT from zelgomer

What? Source? IRS is a private org, not even American owned I don't think. Which, by the way, is sketchy as hell if true.

Apparently it may be. But courts have upheld its authority. It depends on who you ask on what you get, but this seems the most coherent and non-biased statement i have seen so far.  But even if they are in effect an independent contractor, the treasury does have the authority to enforce tax law, so by default so do their contractors when they act on the behalf of the treasury..

Tho that does mean IRS people better not be getting government pensions on our dime...

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The IRS is a bureau of the U.S. Department of Treasury and considers itself a "tax administrator" that works under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. So rather than be "owned" by the Treasury, the IRS "works for" the Treasury.

The IRS has repeatedly argued that, even though Congress did not create the IRS through an act, it is a government agency. It cites the 1971 Supreme Court case Donaldson v. the United States, in which the court ruled the IRS is allowed to administer internal revenue laws as an agency would. Also, the IRS points out that the U.S. Code grants the Secretary of the Treasury full authority to enforce tax law and to appoint an agency to do so.2