Congressman Ken Calvert (CA-41) voted along with a 221-210 House of Representatives majority to approve the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act on Monday.
“At a time of high inflation and rising costs, the last thing American families need is an army of IRS agents looking into every transaction they make,” Calvert said in a press release.
Calvert and other representatives are blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to add 87,000 new IRS agents, whom they say would likely focus on families and small businesses with increased audits, according to a news release from the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means. The Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act blocks all new IRS funds targeting middle-class families and small businesses while enhancing government services for Americans, the release said.
“We need a federal government that works for taxpayers, not a growing bureaucracy that seeks to target and harass taxpayers. If anyone really thinks we need tens of thousands of additional IRS agents to apply our tax laws, perhaps it’s time to simplify our tax code. With the passage of the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, House Republicans are upholding the commitment we made to America to put their needs first,” Calvert said in the release.
A lifelong resident of Riverside County, Calvert has been a small business owner in the restaurant and real estate industries for 17 years, according to his website.
Calvert represents the 41st Congressional District of Southern California, which stretches across Riverside County and includes the cities of Corona, Norco, Lake Elsinore, Wildomar, Canyon Lake, Menifee, Calimesa, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, La Quinta, Indian Wells and portions of Eastvale and Riverside, the website said.
Since Calvert was first elected to Congress, he has worked with local stakeholders to bring federal resources to critical projects in Riverside County, according to the website. These include C-17 aircraft operations at March Air Reserve Base; critical transportation projects; including the expansion of the 91 freeway; research into the grapevine-killing Pierce's Disease scourging California's wine industry; and expansion of the Janet Goeske Center for Senior and Disabled Citizens. His work has also addressed improving cutting-edge clean air technology at the University of California at Riverside and supporting various environmental restoration and flood control efforts critical to Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.