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by coinward 2152 days ago
Do the IRS really carry guns? The man-power needed and costs to enforce collection of coins means this doesn't scale well for the state
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They have guns and a yearly budget of US$1.2 billion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Criminal_Investigation

They are notorious for "always" catching their criminals, too. Local law enforcement of many stripes in multiple states tried to catch Capone, but in the end it was the Revenuers that caught Capone on tax evasion.
For every Capone there are thousands of people you never heard of successfully evading taxes