‘Obamacare’cops:$1 billion to force new tax compliance

By Jerome R. Corsi,WorldNetDaily

 $1 Billion for new IRS agents

Collecting taxes under the Democrats’newly passed health-care plan will cost the federal government more than $1 billion a year in salaries alone,Republicans in Congress estimate.

The legislation will require the IRS to hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors,agents and other employees to investigate and collect billions in new taxes imposed on Americans,according to a House Committee on Ways and Means Committee Republican report prepared March 18 for ranking members Reps. Dave Camp,R-Mich.,and Charles Boustany,R-La.

In March 2009,the federal government’s average annual salary was $42,035 for tax examiners,$91,507 for internal revenue agents and $63,547 for tax specialists,according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics "Occupational Outlook Handbook,2010-11 Edition."

Averaging the three pay grade averages yields an estimated $65,696 per IRS worker hired,assuming an equal number of tax examiners,internal revenue agents and tax specialists.

Together,the 16,500 new IRS personnel needed to collect taxes under the new legislation will cost the federal government somewhere in the realm of $1.1 billion

The IRS media office objected that the Joint Committee on Taxation publication JCX-18-10 issued March 21,"Technical Explanation of the Revenue Provisions of the Reconciliation Act,"does not specify any number of IRS personnel that must be hired to implement the tax provisions of the bill.

Rep. Kevin Brady,R-Texas,disagrees.

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