IRS Official’s Speech Is Grist For Tea Party Mill

Forbes reports:

Describing “a few things we got going on,” a high-ranking Internal Revenue Service official spoke in buoyant terms Tuesday about a number of new ways the agency is targeting wealthier small-business owners.

An upbeat Chris Wagner, commissioner of the IRS Small Business/Self-Employed Division, told the annual Tax Controversy Institute in Beverly Hills his unit had stepped up its use of “machine learning” with a “robust set of algorithms” to seek “the most egregious cases” of taxpayer noncompliance.

Imagine that.