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The IRS is cash-strapped and audit rates are down, but that doesn’t mean the average Jane or Joe can hide the ball from the tax man. The tax-collecting agency devotes more resources to chasing big fish like convicted tax cheat Wesley Snipes than the average middle-class taxpayer, that’s true. But the IRS is now using sophisticated software and data analysis that puts it in touch with taxpayers before the official audit process begins. “Now with automation and the electronic submission of W-2s and 1099s, the IRS just matches the information,” said David Kautter, managing director of the Kogod Tax Center...

Obama has sicced his tax henchmen on poor folks and illegals whose extra pennies come from "perpetual" garage sales, yardwork, selling home made tamales, doing car repairs in their yards, trimming trees, painting cars and doing body work, babysitting, day laborers who stand on street corners.... Will resentful neighbors report illegal neighbors? So Obama thinks Arizona's laws are unfairly profiling Mexicans - what does his law do? Say what you will, at least the Arizona law won't hit illegals unaware. Again: "Home made tamales?"