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Despite $80 billion in new funding, the agency is living up to its reputation of hassling low-income taxpayers over rich people...On Wednesday, Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released data provided to it by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on audits performed by the agency in fiscal year 2022. Despite the infusion of new funding earmarked for the IRS via last year's Inflation Reduction Act, the agency continued historic trends of hassling primarily low-income taxpayers, with relatively few millionaires and billionaires getting caught up in the audit sweep."The taxpayer class with unbelievably high audit rates—five and a half times...

Norway has the least amount of police per capita in the Nordic region, and it would take 1,600 new jobs to reach Swedish levels, according to calculations by the Federation of Police Unions (PF).Sweden has one police officer for every 381 residents, Denmark one for 396. According to a new PF report Norway is a distant last with the needs of 438 citizens covered per officer.The real difference between Norway's police workload and that of their Swedish colleagues is even greater, with Norwegian officers using 685 man-years on evictions and similar cases, while Sweden has a separate entity for such...

Gunman shoots down 3 Sikhs PTI[ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2004 03:37:32 PM ] WASHINGTON: A Sikh gunman opened fire on a group of elderly men of his community playing cards at a park in San Jose, killing three of them -- before the group turned on the attacker beating him to death, police said. The 43-year-old attacker walked up to the group of 15 men who were playing cards in the park on Sunday and hurled some abuses in Punjabi before opening fire on them. Two men died on the spot, and one died at San Jose Medical Center, San...

    Print This Story Police Carry Out Sting At Middle School Students Given Warnings For Breaking Helmet Law POSTED: 6:13 PM PST February 5, 2004 UPDATED: 6:34 PM PST February 5, 2004 SAN DIEGO -- Police officers taught some Mira Mesa students a potentially life-saving lesson Thursday, 10News reported.It seemed like an ordinary day as students left Challenger Middle School. But, police officers were in position and looking for students who were breaking the law. Mark McCullough, from the San Diego Police Department, said, "In less than 20 minutes, we issued 13 traffic warnings."Nearly 61 percent of the students...