Monday, 2 November 2020

Read ProPublica's excellent work on the IRS's targeting of poor taxpayers

The GOP has long made it their mission to absolutely disable the IRS, thus protecting the wealthiest of the wealthy from any sort of scrutiny. And it's been working: as ProPublica reported in 2019, millionaires in 2018 were about 80% less likely to be audited than they were in 2011; coincidentally (or not), the IRS's budget for enforcement has been reduced by a quarter since 2011, too. — Read the rest