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Fiscal Year 2006 Enforcement And Service Results
The IRS made strong progress in a number of key enforcement categories. We are showing consistent improvements in areas critical to running a fair, efficient tax system. We are bringing in billions of dollars to the Treasury through our expanded enforcement activity. At the same time, I want to emphasize that this increase has not been at the expense of taxpayer service. We continued to show improvements in key areas involving services for taxpayers in fiscal 2006.
There are a lot of different ways to look at numbers. But no matter how you look at our results, they show a strong rebound in our enforcement efforts. Our enforcement activity is up from the low points following the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, and it has climbed significantly since I became Commissioner three-and-a-half years ago.
The bottom line for our enforcement efforts shows that dollars collected rose again last year. There's a strong trend line going up. Fiscal 2005 was a watershed year for us, with a number of big initiatives that helped push enforcement revenues up 10% to $47.3 billion. In Fiscal 2006, enforcement revenues – the monies we get from our collection, examination, and document matching activities – increased to a record $48.7 billion. Our exam dollars were down slightly this year because of the big bump from the Son of Boss settlement initiative in 2005. Even with that, our overall dollars collected jumped nearly 3% in 2006 principally because of a strong rise in collections. Read more at irs.gov
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