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In 2022, The IRS Went After The Very Poorest Taxpayers: Despite $80 billion in new funding, the agency is living up to its reputation of hassling low-income taxpayers over rich people
Reason ^ | 01/08/2023 | Liz Wolfe

Posted on 01/08/2023 6:04:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/08/2023 6:04:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s about time the irs is audited and their 2’nd Amendment rights revoked.


2 posted on 01/08/2023 6:07:16 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not about collecting taxes, it’s about crushing the peasants.


3 posted on 01/08/2023 6:08:11 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: patriot torch

The IRS is not going after the rich, they have attorneys and CPA’s. The poor and middle class can’t protect themselves.


4 posted on 01/08/2023 6:08:53 PM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
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To: SeekAndFind
Surprise!! Surprise!!

The IRS goes after the EIC, because there is enough evidence or belief that that is where the cheating happens. Maybe smaller dollars than when rich people cheat, but a lot of multi-thousand cheating incidents add up after a while. When rich people pay large fees to professionals to complete their taxes for them, there is less cheating and mistakes.

Next, some grad-student is going to look at the due diligence requirements for paid tax preparers, and publish a paper stating that it's the paid tax preparers who are the problem. Otherwise there would be no due diligence requirements!

Too bad nobody looks at the southern border this way. They might find out that illegals come into the country illegally. Then they stay in this country illegally. Who'da figured on that?

5 posted on 01/08/2023 6:15:08 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: SeekAndFind
Mathematics....ruling-class/deep state has decimated the middle-class, created many more poor people for gov. to tap(no property, no securities, etc. = no tax write-offs).

You don't think all those thousands of new IRS agents are going to be going after the Nancy Pelosi's, do you?

6 posted on 01/08/2023 6:17:30 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Salman

The reason is it’s easy to identify who is qualified for earned income. It’s a quick audit and a letter saying you owe back taxes. Very simple. I personally don’t think there should be earned income credit at all.


7 posted on 01/08/2023 6:17:41 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: SeekAndFind

The “very poorest” don’t pay taxes...they get money back.


8 posted on 01/08/2023 6:24:20 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
the very poorest

All 25 million of them!

9 posted on 01/08/2023 6:27:06 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: SeekAndFind

The assumption and agenda here is the audits are because they are poor.

The earned income credit has a lot of abuse..............


10 posted on 01/08/2023 6:27:34 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have yet to receive our refund from return filed in March. Finally were told it must have been lost, and we should file it again. That was almost a month ago, and it is not showing up in their “Where’s my refund” tracking yet.

I have changed my withholding down to 7%.


11 posted on 01/08/2023 6:30:32 PM PST by NEMDF
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This has been going on for decades. When I lived in El Paso, one of my bowling teammates ran the El Paso IRS office. He told me the most audited returns are those filing Sch C (self employment) and taking the EIC.

It was the lowest of low hanging fruit. Most of these returns were filed by hand, before the advent of TurboTax and other programs. All an auditor needed to do was disallow a few deductions for lack of substantiation, and voila! Greater SE income and less EIC.

Hasn't changed much over the years...those 87,000 new agents won't be unleashed on billionaires, far from it. They hire CPAs and tax attorneys with experience in dealing with the IRS...it wouldn't be cost effective.

12 posted on 01/08/2023 6:35:07 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess they will be coming after me


13 posted on 01/08/2023 6:36:13 PM PST by Coleus (250K attend the March for Life, no violence, break-ins, stealing of podiums/laptops, etc., peaceful)
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To: NEMDF

Keep an eye on this- 2 friends of mine had their taxes filed by someone else and their refund checks stolen. I think one filed for a huge refund when my friend wasn’t expecting much back and it was paid.


14 posted on 01/08/2023 6:36:43 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SeekAndFind

Poor taxpayers seldom make campaign contributions!

WWG1WGA!


15 posted on 01/08/2023 6:42:08 PM PST by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation )
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Yes, we are checking every day and will call the Taxpayer Advocacy Hotline again in another week or 2.

It was maddening that they didn’t even want to try to find it for us (this was in December, 9 months later), without asking if we are at risk of being evicted or some financial tragedy. I said we did need the refund money asap, since we have now received our next property tax bill from the city.... UGGGGHH

They did admit to many thousands of returns that were sent to Ogden, UT in 2021 (year before) were just destroyed, because they didn’t have time to get to them, so I suspect that this is what happened again.


16 posted on 01/08/2023 6:45:21 PM PST by NEMDF
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1) The rich can afford accountants who are more likely to ensure that their tax filings are accurate and follow current tax law.

2) The poor are more likely to hire cheap seasonal tax firms that bend the law and pile on deductions and credits that result in what appears to be a large refund, until, of course they get audited and have to amend and repay their inaccurate filing.

3) The poor, especially those illegally here, are more likely to commit outright fraud, claiming head of Household and Self Employment income, but only up to the point where they can realize the maximum credits. (yes Senor, I only earned $14,500 last year and have 5 children, I owe no tax, so where is my refund?)

Which group would you audit? Its not the group with professional accountants.


17 posted on 01/08/2023 6:46:00 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Aside from my hatred for the IRS, those getting earned income tax credits should be audited for fraud. Because there is a lot of it.

In fact, the earned income tax credit should be eliminated. Everyone should be paying a flat tax. Benefits paid to those in the lower half of the income level is what keeps getting Democrats in power.


18 posted on 01/08/2023 6:46:02 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: SeekAndFind

The article seems to imply that it’s ok if ‘low-income’ people cheat on their taxes. I bet many of them do. You wouldn’t see a headline claiming the IRS was ‘hassling’ Donald Trump if they audited him.

The rich and middle class hire accountants, who, if competent, file tax forms properly. People pay for their services to ensure that they pay the very least taxes they can.


19 posted on 01/08/2023 6:49:11 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Exactly


20 posted on 01/08/2023 6:53:16 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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