<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1659623043476,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1659623043476,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_59476162", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1067396"} }); rn","_id":"00000182-693d-df9f-abca-fdbfdb970000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedThe tax and spend deal cut by Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer includes a provision to allow the Internal Revenue Service to create a high-priced strike force of 300.
According to a new congressional analysis, the pay for those 300 could be as high as the $235,100 given to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The spending is part of an additional $79.6 billion set aside for the IRS in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, according to the Congressional Research Service.
“The Secretary of the Treasury would be permitted to set the base pay and compensation for as many as 300 positions at the IRS, up to the equivalent levels set by statute for the Vice President of the United States,” said CRS in a new report on the nuts and bolts in the plan.
The research arm of Congress also said that another 200 potential IRS workers would be eligible for big paychecks under a provision meant to let the federal government pay more than current rules allow so it can attract workers from the private sector.
The plan, said CRS, “would permit the IRS to hire up to 200 highly skilled workers for critical position pay through FY2031, meaning the IRS could better compete with the private sector for these employees during that time.”
Top Senate Republicans have been critical of the deal, made after Democrats approved a pipeline favored by Manchin. Several have hit the extra IRS funding, as reported by the Washington Examiner’s Zachary Halaschak yesterday.
