[20180410]IF10729_2018财年国税局预算.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 10, 2018Internal Revenue Service Budget, FY2018Overview The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collects the vast share of the revenue needed to fund the federal government and enforces federal tax laws. In FY2017, the IRS processed 245.4 million returns and related documents for all federal taxes and collected $3.4 trillion in gross revenue. Appropriations account for nearly all of the funds available to the IRS for obligation. In FY2017, the most recent year for which enacted figures are available, 94% of those funds came from appropriations. The remainder consisted of reimbursements, offsetting collections, user fees, and unobligated balances from previous years. Under current law, the IRS may use these miscellaneous funds as it deems appropriate. They are expected to total an estimated $1.059 billion in FY2018. (Non-appropriated funds are not included in Table 1.) Historically, the agencys appropriations have been distributed among four accounts: taxpayer services, enforcement, operations support (OS), and business systems modernization (BSM). As shown in Table 1, enforcement is receiving 42.5% of the $11.431 billion in enacted IRS appro