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Steny Hoyer: “We've gone from 9% looking for fraud in IRS filed returns of…”

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

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'IRS Has Been Enforcement Has Been Cut': Steny Hoyer Grills Russell Vought Over IRS Gutting

Published | Video Starts at 01:13

Are you aware of the fact that IRS has been enforcement has been cut some by your proposal 28% and by the Congress's action in the House by 19% in enforcement and that We've gone from 9% looking for fraud in IRS filed returns of people over a million dollars to six tenths of a percent. Do you think that's a very efficient way to assure the a people do not cheat and be that we collect the sum $700 billion that almost every IRS commissioner, Republican and Democrat have determined are due and Owen but not paid. (01:13–01:46)

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Asserts that IRS fraud detection in returns over a million dollars dropped from 9% to 0.6%.

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