Reporter good evening. Right now im here at 10th street northwest and constitution avenue. You look here, these Police Officers are directing traffic blocking off the area to make sure no one drives down constitution avenue en route to the washington monument. Come with me over here before i show you some video. You can see this fire truck here. The area right down there, which is 13th, that is blocked off. So a lot of folks are packing their patience trying to avoid the irs building. Lets roll some video right now. Here is what happened. A transformer fire sparked in the basement. Now, a d. C. Fire and em s representative told us that he doesnt know if anyone was injured. Well, i have an update right now from the irs spokesperson, and he tolells me no one was injure. This is the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters building here and all of the employees inside were evacuated. Many of them decided to go home. Others i presume are standing around here because they have work to do, tryi
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not to send tax enforcers to audit households making less than $400,000 per year, after concerns were raised that a massive funding boost to the agency would be used to crack down not on wealthy tax dodgers but to bully middle-income Americans.