If cheating on your taxes is randomly distributed and there are hundreds of more poor people than rich, I would expect the poor to be in more audits.
People often use statistics incorrectly. You often hear the fact that the percentage of blacks in jail is high than that of white, and they point to that as a clear indication of discrimination. It seems those facts are also consistent with the fact that blacks have a higher incidence of crime and more readily participate in criminal activity than whites. That’s not racist or discrimination. It’s simply a fact.
“If cheating on your taxes is randomly distributed and there are hundreds of more poor people than rich, I would expect the poor to be in more audits.”
But the amount of tax that the poor avoid is much less than the amount that the rich avoid.
It is probably better to go after the 1 person avoiding $1 million rather than 1000 people avoiding $1,000
Facts be racis.........................
Repeating facts makes you a racist to our modern woke SJW Leftists. Of course, dealing with problems requires a firm knowledge of the facts, at least in my world. It’s a real issue that makes solving the problems extremely difficult, if not impossible. No one likes being called a racist, so the problems fester. But that’s where we are.
I imagine most of the errors found are not “cheating”, but rather people who just had no clue what to do, and did it wrong.