Hiring takes years
Hendricks 21, Galen Hendricks is a research associate at the Center for American Progress. Seth Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Center (Galen, “Better Tax Enforcement Can Advance Fairness and Raise More Than $1 Trillion of Revenue,” Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/article/better-tax-enforcement-can-advance-fairness-raise-1-trillion-revenue/)//BB
Building the IRS workforce of the future will take several years as well. It takes four to five years to train new hires to become revenue officers capable of detecting fraud in complex cases.35 The IRS fell well behind the curve because of a hiring freeze in effect from 2011 through 2018 and therefore will need to bolster its ranks.36 The agency needs reliable multiyear funding to rebuild itself. “Mandatory, consistent, adequate, multiyear funding allows us to plan appropriately,” Commissioner Rettig told Congress in his testimony.37 The Biden administration’s FY 2022 appropriations request is a good start, but given that annual appropriations have consistently fallen well short of what the IRS requires, Congress this year must seize the opportunity to provide mandatory, multiyear funding to supplement annual appropriations.38