Responsibilities of Internal Revenue Service?

tax collection and education.

Douglas H. Shulman

Abraham Lincoln created the IRS in order to help recover expenses incurred by the Civil War.

The US Internal Revenue Service is the largest bureau of the US Department of the Treasury. According to the Treasury Department, the IRS "is responsible for determining, assessing, and collecting...

Started in 1862 as the bureau of internal revenue, name changed to internal revenue service in 1953.