Posted on 02/17/2023 5:07:02 PM PST by Twotone
Good news, everyone: Joe Biden’s nominee to head the IRS has promised to make tax audits more racially “equitable”! In other words, get ready for more shakedowns from the government, white people.
Hooray!
It was bad enough that Biden just infused nearly $100 billion into an agency despised by anyone trying to make an honest living — we’re the ones most likely to be harassed by it — but now it comes with the added insult of “equity,” a term that should be greeted like a real pandemic. Draw the blinds, close the shutters, and lock the doors.
Daniel Werfel, who is likely to be the next IRS commissioner, made the commitment during his congressional testimony on Wednesday after Stanford University published a study claiming that black taxpayers are disproportionately hit with audits. As with every other law or policy that supposedly “disproportionately impacts communities of color” (ie. rules meant to keep everyone safe and everything fair from ne’er-do-wells), this is B.S.
It’s true that black filers receive audit notices at a higher rate than non-black filers. But that’s because black taxpayers claim certain lower-income tax credits, like the earned income tax credit or credits for single parents, at a higher rate. That often means a filer receives money from the government that he never paid into it. “When someone claims one of these tax credits, which are part of our country’s social safety net,” the study said, “they receive a refund amount even if they didn’t pay any taxes.” (The term “refund” here is inaccurate for money that was never given by a taxpayer.) These credits are most likely to instigate an audit purely based on an IRS algorithm.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Reparations don’t pay themselves...
Non-Whites cheat, Whites audited more. Makes perfect sense if your brain has rotted like biden’s.
Pay up honky!
It’s true that black filers receive audit notices at a higher rate than non-black filers. But that’s because black taxpayers claim certain lower-income tax credits, like the earned income tax credit or credits for single parents, at a higher rate.Unspoken here is that EITC claim filers are more likely to have abnormal amounts of undocumented income, shall we say, than do other filers (which can be tracked by the IRS, btw.). And, apparently, the same people who can't figure out how to get a photo ID to vote know precisely the income thresholds for EITC filings.
From the article, “Single black men with dependents — unmarried fathers — also make up the largest group of EITC claims.”
I am sorry, I have to scream BS!!!!
I thought the plan for 86K new tax agents was going to be defunded by the GOP. Was that nothing but hot air?
Reparations may be the death of this country. The Democrats have played with the idea simply to gain votes from blacks, but we may soon be at a point where blacks will not accept “no” for an answer, and will demand them on a scale that will bankrupt the country. Of course with current trends we will reach bankruptcy sooner or later.
The country is already bankrupt many times over. What's a few more trillion?
Heads up heterosexual white men, that does not include you.
The $1.7 Trillion omnibus bill funds it through the fiscal year.
How do they know your race?
Thank you, Mitch McConnell.
They need more tax money so they’re going after tip jars and tips.
I ll just have to go Native American on their asses.
Damn! I’ll bet a few RINOs assisted the Dems in pushing this through. Mitt and Patch-Man come to mind.
19 or so in the Senate, 9 in the House.
Two minutes on the internet
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