politijohn

Today I learned the IRS doesn’t audit rich people because it’s too much work.

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  • Americans owe a cumulative $131 billion in unpaid taxes, enough to completely fund the Department of Ed. for 2 years…
  • Most of this unpaid tax money is owed by millionaires…
  • Millionaires were 80% less likely to be audited in 2018 than in 2011…
  • You are more likely to get audited if you make $20,000/yr than if you make $400,000/yr
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just to chime in, saying that it’s “too much work” frames the IRS as lazy and not willing to work hard. The IRS can’t audit rich people because they don’t have enough money to pay for sufficient personnel to audit everyone who isn’t on anti-poverty programs.

This is directly because of conservatives. 

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Moreover, the rich pay lawers and accounting teams to ACTIVELY MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO AUDIT THEM. The IRS actually put together task force to finally go after billionaire tax fraud and they were immediately swamped in more red tape and civil court trouble than they could handle.

The government can’t tax rich people because the rich are, in fact, so rich that they can leverage more power than the government.

Source: politijohn