Politico doing fearmongering on the IRS’ behalf?
The same wonderful computer systems that regularly spit out letters to businesses that haven’t existed in decades (nor do they actually have any out stand taxes owed).
The same supposedly upgrades systems that cost huge sums of money, all for the sake of preventing fraudulent returns (ID theft being a primary target), that actually opened the door to much greater ID theft and fraudulent tax returns...
The same systems that “miss” data that has been correctly provided, resulting in threatening letters and even audits that require repeated submissions of the same forms...
It’s all about not being too greedy ...
Yeah, unless you’re an “unauthorised alien”:
I was audited in the mid-80s because we didn’t report $32 in interest income. By mistake.