The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government received its current name in 1953 and a federal income tax was established in 1913 U.S. Constitution – Sixteenth Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress by the 16^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Taxation to fund federal government spending has been a contentious subject throughout American History as this IRS history timeline shows IRS history timeline | Internal Revenue Service  Laws governing federal taxes are in Title 26 of the United States Code OLRC Home known as the Internal Revenue Code and regulations governing federal taxation are found in Title 26 eCFR :: Title 26 of the CFR — Internal Revenue of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

Numerous information resources can be found on the IRS’ website including tax statistics Statistics | Internal Revenue Service featuring documentation of business and individual tax statistics, charitable and tax-exempt organization statistics, and numerous other tax research topics.  IRS budget and staffing levels are included in this Publication 5530 (Rev. 6-2025) in this Fiscal Year 2026 congressional budget request. The two congressional committees with oversight of the IRS are the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee.  Indiana Rep. Rudy Yakym  Home (2nd District) is a member of the House Ways & Means Committee Full Committee – Ways and Means and Senator Todd Young Home – Senator Young is a member of the Senate Finance Committee Home | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

This blog post was submitted by Bert Chapman, Purdue University.