Good article. My understanding is that a lot of people who don't owe taxes don't file returns. I wonder, in addition to the 63 million filers who pay no income tax, how many millions of non-filers are there who are getting a lot of government benefits at the expense of taxpayers.
How many “normal” non-filers are there? IRS certainly knows. Remember that huge rebate everyone got last year? You had to file a tax return in order to get it. I don’t know if I would give the Dimwits credit for thinking outside the box on this one but because of the requirement to file in order to receive, the govt now knows a lot more about a lot of people than they did before. Also understand there are still lots of checks outstanding which have never been cashed or were returned because of address issues.