The IRS has been filing more tax liens and collecting billions more in recent years.

Posted by Bannon`s War Room, Jul 27, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

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Sources: 1 contradict2 support1 context
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Confidence: 55%

Bannon`s War RoomJul 27, 2026

Federal tax lien filings have risen in recent years per IRS-derived data, which supports the lien part of the claim. Collections are contested: Reuters reports enforcement revenue fell 5% in FY2025 while Treasury officials cite a 12% enforcement revenue increase in the first five months of FY2026, so the 'collecting billions more' part is only partly supported.

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… Now is the time to resolve your tax matters. With the national conversation around abolishing the income tax, the IRS is fighting back and proving it's here to stay by becoming more aggressive than ever before. They're sending out more collection notices, filing more tax liens, and collecting billions more in recent years. If you owe, the IRS can garnish your wages, levy your bank accounts, seize your retirement, and even your home. If you owe or haven't filed, it's not a question of if the IRS will act; it's a question of when it will act. …

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What we found

Contradicts. Reuters, citing FOIA data, reports IRS enforcement revenue fell 5% (about $5 billion) in FY2025 after mass staffing cuts, which cuts against the claim that the IRS collected billions more in recent years.[1]

Supports. The IRS filed more than 214,000 notices of federal tax lien in FY2025, up 9% from the prior year and 36% from FY2022, with a similar FY2022 to FY2025 rise reported in a tax-law data summary.[3][4]

Supports. Treasury officials told Reuters that IRS enforcement revenue rose 12% in the first five months of FY2026, which partly supports a recent collections increase, though no dollar figure is given for that rise.[1]

Context. The IRS Data Book reports $117.5 billion collected in unpaid assessments in FY2025, but the snapshot gives no prior-year comparison, so it does not by itself show an increase.[2]

Context. Lien filings remain about half of pre-pandemic levels of roughly 400,000 to 500,000 per year, which tempers the 'more aggressive than ever' framing.[3]