IRS Ends ‘Most’ Home Visits Under Congressional Pressure, by Michael Swartz

It only took a 22-page report to end an onerous IRS practice that, it was argued, had been in place for “several decades.”

While Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan’s run at the House speakership was unsuccessful, his work in chairing the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has been decidedly more productive — at least in the instance of getting the IRS to curtail its practice of unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes.

“The Committee’s and Select Subcommittee’s oversight and investigation of the IRS’s abusive actions yielded real results for the American people,” the committee’s report explained. “The Committee and Select Subcommittee identified how IRS employees abused an IRS policy, and it forced the IRS to reevaluate its policy. Commissioner Werfel stated that ending the policy after decades was ‘the right thing to do and the right time to end it.’ While the policy should have been ended decades ago, taxpayers no longer have to worry the IRS will come knocking on their door without prior notice.” …

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