From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Adali.

On the day that taxes are due in the U.S., we look at how a plan to give the internal

revenue service billions of dollars in new money could result in the agency repeating

a set of old mistakes that hurt everyday Americans.

Today, my colleague, Alan Rappapore, explains.

It's Tuesday, April 18th.

Alan, happy tax day. The last possible day to file your taxes without incurring some

sort of late fee. It used to always be the 15th. For some reason it's the 18th. I filed

mine a week ago. I want to know if you have filed.

Minor in as well. Happy tax day to you, Michael. It's a big day for the country and for the IRS,

especially. This is really important. Why isn't it the 15th anymore?

It's a calendar quirk. It depends how holiday is lined up. Sometimes it has been delayed over

the years as well when there have been technical issues with the IRS and other things going on.

Usually it's around the 15th, but this year people get an extra weekend to cram.

Right. We are not here to talk about who filed one, but instead to talk about why the Biden administration

has decided that the IRS, this agency that literally makes our government work by collecting

our taxes, why it needs changing? President Biden, along with Democrats, passed a major

piece of legislation just a couple of months ago to make some pretty meaningful changes to the IRS.

It's only now that we're starting to understand what those changes are going to look like

and what kind of battle they may instigate. Talk to us about these changes and what has motivated them.

The biggest change is that the IRS is getting an infusion of $80 billion, which is the largest

sum of money that it's gotten, basically in its entire history. For years, the IRS, in most New York

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