Latest Fact-Checks In Taxes

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Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on August 24, 2022 a newsletter
“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says with the supersized staff, the IRS audit rate ‘would rise for ALL taxpayers’ regardless of income, and would even result in audits of innocent Americans who have paid their taxes and don’t owe the IRS anything.”
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • August 31, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 25, 2022 a post
Student debt relief is taxable by the Internal Revenue Service.
False
August 30, 2022
Deidre DeJear
Deidre DeJear
stated on August 13, 2022 remarks at the Iowa State Fair
“$1.5 billion of your taxpayer money is sitting in an account” that can be used for other purposes.
Mostly False
By Lyle Muller • August 29, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 News release
"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • August 25, 2022
Ben Cline
Ben Cline
stated on August 12, 2022 a statement.
A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann, Warren Fiske • August 24, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 17, 2022 Instagram post
"Biden is adding more IRS agents to investigate your taxes than we have detectives investigating every crime in the country.”
False
August 23, 2022
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on August 3, 2022 an ad
The Inflation Reduction Act "doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund."
Mostly False
August 23, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 21, 2022 an Instagram post
“Congress just voted to exempt themselves from IRS auditing of their personal finances.”
False
By Sara Swann • August 23, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2022 a Facebook post
Photos show “an IRS agent training class.”
False
August 19, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2022 a Facebook post
"The IRS is about to double in size, with 87,000 new armed agents and an additional $80 billion in order to primarily enhance IRS enforcement and operations.”
Mostly False
August 18, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 16, 2022 a press release
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 17, 2022
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on August 10, 2022 an interview on Fox News
“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2022
Bob Good
Bob Good
stated on August 10, 2022 a tweet.
“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Warren Fiske • August 17, 2022
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on August 4, 2022 interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News
The government is arming up the IRS because “Joe Biden is raising taxes and disarming Americans.”
False
August 12, 2022
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 9, 2022 a tweet
“Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 11, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on August 8, 2022 a TikTok video
A "Delta Force” seized a shipment of weapons headed to the IRS.
Pants on Fire!
August 11, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on July 6, 2022 TV ad
“Tim Michels pushed for years to raise (Wisconsin’s) gas tax.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • August 5, 2022
Adam Laxalt
Adam Laxalt
stated on July 30, 2022 a tweet
A Democratic bill negotiated between Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer would "increase taxes on millions of Americans across every income bracket."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 15, 2022 a reel
"To date, nobody has been able to show that there is a law for the average American citizen working day in and day out to pay an income tax."
Pants on Fire!
By Monique Curet • July 26, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 6, 2022 a speech in Cleveland
The “average federal income tax” paid by the richest Americans is “8%. … If you’re a cop, a teacher, a firefighter, union worker, you probably pay two to three times that.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2022
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