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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 days agoWhile completely incorrect, it’s important to remember that the IRS intentionally audits people like you and me and not Musk and Trump, because “it’s too hard”… https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/
minus-squareTartas1995@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 days agoAnd it is “too hard” because they don’t have the fund to do it. Which is because budget cuts… https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-need-to-rebuild-the-depleted-irs
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoYeah, I think people forget that over half of the US pays no income tax because they literally don’t make enough. https://money.howstuffworks.com/only-53-percent-pay-income-tax.htm Funding/empowering the IRS is really only going to impact people higher up the chain, which is why Republicans largely want to shrink the IRS.
While completely incorrect, it’s important to remember that the IRS intentionally audits people like you and me and not Musk and Trump, because “it’s too hard”…
https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/
And it is “too hard” because they don’t have the fund to do it. Which is because budget cuts…
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-need-to-rebuild-the-depleted-irs
Yeah, I think people forget that over half of the US pays no income tax because they literally don’t make enough. https://money.howstuffworks.com/only-53-percent-pay-income-tax.htm
Funding/empowering the IRS is really only going to impact people higher up the chain, which is why Republicans largely want to shrink the IRS.