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据美国财政部税务管理监察长办公室（TIGTA，一家联邦监督机构）发布的最新报告显示，由于美国国税局（IRS）裁减了数千名执法人员，2025财年的审计收入暴跌35%。
TIGTA在8月26日的报告中指出，截至9月30日结束的2025财年，国税局通过审计共收回65亿美元税款，低于上一年度的100亿美元。
该机构表示，截至2026年1月，国税局负责审计和税收征管的员工人数已降至17517人，较2024财年减少了近10000人。报告补充称，裁员的影响可能“在未来会愈发明显”。
“这些人员流失对改善纳税人服务和执行国家税收法律构成了挑战，”这家税务监督机构表示，“我们担忧人员流失会如何影响国税局落实部门优先事项的能力。”
税务审计人员大量流失
此次调查结果公布前，TIGTA去年曾发现，特朗普政府上任头三个月内，国税局流失了三分之一的税务审计师。此次就业人数下降源于埃隆·马斯克领导的政府效率部（DOGE）的裁员举措，该部门试图通过裁员和所谓的“延期辞职”相结合的方式削减联邦雇员规模。
财政部监督机构指出，由于审计工作可能需要数年才能完成，随着更多案件结案，部分审计收入下滑的情况可能会出现逆转。
2025财年，国税局发起的大型企业审计数量较上年增加了17%。但报告称，由于机构内部的重大重组调整了人员分配，推迟了部分税务专员的培训，新成立商业合伙企业的审计数量下降了30%。
国税局对高收入纳税人的审计数量也有所减少。2025财年，该机构对年收入超过40万美元的个人启动了约4.3万次税务审查，较上年下降26%。截至2026年1月，该局全球高净值项目的员工人数较2025财年裁员前减少了27%。
美国国税局和财政部未立即回应置评请求。
尽管审计收入下滑，但财政部监督机构的数据显示，2025财年国税局的总税收收入仍较上一年度有所增长，纳税人缴纳的联邦税款升至5.3万亿美元，较上一财年增长4.2%。
美国国税局预算削减
审计收入下滑与2024年的情况形成逆转，当时国税局计划通过对高收入纳税人和企业开展审计来增加税收收入。在拜登政府任期内，《通胀削减法案》向美国国税局拨款800亿美元，使其能够聘请更多审计师和税收征管人员。
2024年初，国税局曾预测，这笔额外拨款将帮助其通过追缴逾期未缴税款，额外收回数千亿美元的税收收入。然而，共和党议员警告称，国税局审计师会将普通美国人作为审计目标，并推动削减国税局预算。
特朗普政府已提议在2027年进一步削减国税局预算。政策专家警告称，进一步缩减该机构预算可能会更难追缴逾期税款和打击逃税行为。
无党派智库预算与政策优先中心的税务分析师在6月的一篇博客文章中写道：“如今国税局负责审计最复杂纳税申报单的税务专员数量，已降至自20世纪50年代以来的最低水平，而当时的经济规模远小于现在，税法也远没有如今复杂。”
他们补充道：“研究显示，每投入1美元用于国税局税务执法，就能收回数倍于该金额的税收收入。这意味着每从国税局执法预算中削减1美元，就会损失超过1美元的税收收入，进而加剧财政赤字。”
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IRS audit revenue plunged following mass layoffs, Treasury watchdog finds
September 1, 2026 / 11:11 AM EDT / CBS News
Revenue from IRS audits plunged 35% in fiscal 2025 as the agency shed thousands of enforcement workers, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, an agency watchdog.
The IRS collected a total of $6.5 billion from audits in fiscal 2025, which ended Sept. 30, down from $10 billion a year earlier, TIGTA said in its Aug. 26 report.
The group said that the number of IRS employees working in auditing and collections had dropped to 17,517 as of January 2026, a decline of almost 10,000 workers from fiscal 2024. The report added that the impact of the staff reductions may “become more apparent over time.”
“These losses present a challenge to improving taxpayer service and enforcing the nation’s tax laws,” the tax watchdog said. “We are concerned about how staffing losses are impacting the IRS’s ability to ensure that it meets department priorities.”
Tax auditor exodus
The findings come after TIGTA last year found that the IRS lost one-third of its tax auditors during the first three months of the Trump administration. The employment decline was due to cost-cutting efforts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which sought to slash the federal workforce through a combination of layoffs and so-called deferred resignations.
The Treasury watchdog noted that because audits can take years to complete, some of the declines could be reversed as more cases are closed.
The IRS initiated 17% more large corporate audits in fiscal 2025 than a year earlier. But audits of new business partnerships fell 30% as a major reorganization at the agency shifted employees and delayed training for some revenue agents, the report said.
The IRS also started fewer audits of wealthy taxpayers. Agency staffers opened about 43,000 examinations of individuals with income over $400,000 in fiscal 2025, down 26% from a year earlier. As of January 2026, the agency’s Global High Wealth program had 27% fewer employees than before the fiscal 2025 workforce reductions.
The IRS and Treasury didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Despite the decline in audit revenue, the IRS collected more total tax revenue in fiscal 2025 than the prior year, with federal taxes paid by taxpayers rising to $5.3 trillion, up 4.2% from the prior fiscal year, according to the Treasury watchdog group.
IRS funding cuts
The drop in audit revenue marks a reversal from 2024, when the IRS planned to boost tax revenue through audits of wealthy taxpayers and corporations. Under the Biden administration, the Inflation Reduction Act directed $80 billion in funding to the IRS, enabling it to hire more auditors and revenue collectors.
In early 2024, the IRS forecast that the additional funding would help it reap hundreds of billions of dollars in additional tax revenue by pursuing overdue and unpaid taxes. However, Republican lawmakers warned that IRS auditors would target everyday Americans and cut billions in IRS funding.
The Trump administration has proposed additional IRS funding cuts for 2027. Policy experts have warned that further shrinking the agency’s budget could make it harder to collect overdue taxes and go after tax cheats.
“The agency has fewer revenue agents, who audit the most complicated tax returns, than it has had since the 1950s, when the economy was far smaller and the tax code was far less complex,” tax analysts with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan think tank, wrote in a June blog post.
They added, “Research shows that every dollar spent on IRS tax enforcement raises multiple dollars in revenue, which means that every dollar cut from IRS enforcement loses more than a dollar of revenue and adds to the deficit.”
Edited by Alain Sherter
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