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Steny Hoyer: “The size of the tax gap... over a decade approached nearly…”

Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

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Ranking Member Hoyer Remarks at Full Committee Markup of the FY 2027 FSGG Bill

Published | Video Starts at 02:30

Natasha Sarin, an advisor for tax policy in the last administration, says this. Over a decade, the size of the tax gap, The size of the tax gap... over a decade approached nearly $7 trillion. Yet we talk about expenditure of $100. A million dollars. $100 million. And we have taken a policy under this bill to again cut the IRS and cut the enforcement process in particular. (02:30–02:45)

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Asserts that the tax gap over a decade is nearly $7 trillion.

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