Congress Pushes IRS to Use AI—But It Already Has Since 2017!

Republicans on the U.S. House’s Ways and Means Committee want the IRS to use AI technologies to help enforce tax laws. Two committee members have introduced the DETECT Act, which would charge the Government Accountability Office with studying AI-assisted tax fraud detection methods and report on their potential to help the IRS detect tax fraud. According to a May 2025 Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report, the IRS has actually been using AI since 2017 for enforcement in such areas as large partnership compliance and the Small Business / Self-Employed Division.