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?
I predicted this a while ago. Looking for the underground income where a persons standard of living doesn’t match their income stream.