63% of recent IRS audits directed at $200,000 or less earners?

[Mike M (the other one)]

(04-16-2024, 12:19 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Now what matters? Math? And this is funny. I’m pretty sure you support the GOP. The ones who were totally against giving more funding to the IRS, and the ones who had a budget proposal last year that would have cut IRS funding so much so that it actually increased the deficit because it would have hindered our ability to collect.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/memorandum-cuts-to-irs-tax-enforcement-would-increase-the-deficit#:~:text=January%209%2C%202023%20%2D%20CBO%20estimated,%24114%20billion%20over%20ten%20years

Didn’t see anything about random audits.

37% of audits going to the top 12% sounds reasonable to me.

If it was entirely random. Sure 50/50 would be ok, maybe even more skewed toward the rich.

But from what I’ve seen this is saying 63% of total audits are households making $200,000 or less. And like I said. That is roughly 88% of the country.

I’d be fine with everybody making over idk let’s say 10 million to be automatically audited.

yea the actual numbers matter.

And no i don't support the GOP with keeping money from the IRS. The IRS is one of the few organizations where we get a positive ROI from our tax dollars. 
Now we are free to criticize how the IRS uses that money but that's a different issue. 

(04-16-2024, 10:54 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: It sounds reasonable, but the middle class is not the ones that are supposed to be targeted. Or,  so that's what we've been told. 

Yea, weird, I pointed out how the IRS re-couped $480M from 1,600 Millionaires and maybe they aren't able to comprehend how many Lower-Middle class people they would need to audit to even come close to that amount of money?