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White House Proposes Bigger Budget for IRS, Cuts for FinCEN
By Colby Adams
printThe U.S. Treasury Department's budget would see a four percent increase over last year's funding under a White House proposal scheduled to take effect in October. The Obama administration fiscal year 2012 budget plan, released Monday, would allocate $14 billion to the U.S. Treasury Department, with the lion's share-95 percent-set aside for the Internal Revenue Service. The White House would cut funding for the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from $111 million to $84 million under the plan. The 24 percent budget decrease would bring FinCEN roughly back to its fiscal year 2008 budget levels, in part by canceling...
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