Sen. Joni Ernst has announced legislation to take away IRS agents’ guns and ammunition, saying it makes no sense for an agency that enforces civil tax laws to arm employees.
The Iowa Republican has written the “Why Does the IRS Have Guns Act,” which would block the agency from obtaining new guns and require it to give up its current arsenal, with the weapons auctioned off and the money used to cut the federal budget deficit.
“The taxman is fully loaded at the expense of the taxpayer,” Ms. Ernst said in announcing her legislation. The IRS’s arsenal has long been a source of questions from Capitol Hill, but it has taken on new dimensions after Democrats last year powered through a new law giving the tax agency $80 billion in new money.
IRS officials said the money would actually go to customer service representatives and technology, to help ease taxpayers’ filing woes, as well as auditors who would chiefly target the books of wealthy tax cheats.But he didn’t rule out hiring more armed special agents at the IRS’s criminal investigative division.
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