In a recently published op-ed, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig urged Congress to approve the $80 billion IRS funding proposal included in the Build Back Better Act. Currently, the bill would provide the IRS approximately $80 billion in additional funding over the next decade. Specifically, among other things, the proposal would appropriate nearly $2 billion for filing, education and other taxpayer services; nearly $45 billion for enforcement, investigative, litigative, and digital asset monitoring and compliance activities; and nearly $5 billion to modernize the systems designed to improve communications with customers. These allocated amounts are on top of the usual annual IRS funding.