the misleading thing about that statistic is that there are far, far fewer wealthy people than there are normal. even with the rate of audits technically being lower, the number of audits of normal people is still far, far greater, and is where the IRS’s focus truly is
my understanding is that the focus of the IRS should be on those that try to subvert paying their taxes, it seems that they believe there is an increased amount of those people in the wealthy category.
but it doesn’t make sense that they should ignore people trying to subvert taxes in the normal brackets does it? all that does is harm everyone else paying their fair share.
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I never said to ignore it for low income taxpayers, but the statistic you provided is incredibly misleading. Plus the IRS would recoup far more money by auditing higher income taxpayers at much greater rates.
edit: you are right about my assumption on ignoring the taxpayer, that was another person’s comment that I confused with yours, my apologies.
How is it misleading? It’s an incredibly simple statement that the rich are audited at a higher rate than the average person isn’t it? I didn’t say that more wealthy are audited than the common folk because it seems common sense that due to large disparity in population (common vs wealthy), that of course there are more common people audited than wealthy. I’m simply pointing out that this guys statement is incorrect, misleading, and intended to incite anger.
“the IRS has not enough staff to investigatevif rich people pay their fair share, therefore they go mostly for normal people.”
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