The Blubber

Per Business Insider

The IRS wants to ramp up its efforts regarding tax collection and ensure that what needs to be paid gets paid. To do this, they're hiring special agents, offering them up to almost $95,000, and ensuring they are prepared to use "deadly force" if necessary.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to hire more people within its Criminal Investigation branch, the agency's law enforcement branch. They posted the hiring ad on their website describing what they were looking for.

The qualifications include skills in accounting and law enforcement. This was so that the agents could be skilled enough to have financial crimes investigated.

IRS: "Special Agents are duly sworn law enforcement officers who are trained to 'follow the money.'"

Here are some of the things that the special agents are expected to investigate.

• Financial crimes
• Money laundering
• Tax-related identity theft
• Terrorist financing efforts

The special agents will reportedly become the agency's only workers with permits for firearm use and carry and will be required to work a 50-hour minimum a week. Although the agents were required to clock in 50 hours, they had to be always on call "even during vacations and weekends."

The posting on the official government job website notes that the IRS has 360 vacancies and is looking for agents in all 50 states. Per the listing, the payment will be from $52,921 to $94,228 annually.

Towards the end of April, the agency said it wouldn't hire armed auditors with its $80 billion new funding. However, it specified that it would hire what it described as "criminal investigators."

In February, the agency also issued a new program that would allow employers to report employee-generated tips. During this time, the IRS issued guidance in the proposed form to give way to public comment.

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Other News:

• The IRS has said the agency will not hire any armed auditors with $80 billion in new funding, but will instead hire "criminal investigators"
• The IRS has issued a new program for employers to report tips employees made

Resources:

Business Insider