IRS plans to increase audit rates of wealthy taxpayers by 50%
Source: CNN Politics
Published 1:42 PM EDT, Thu May 2, 2024
Washington CNN The Internal Revenue Service detailed its plans Thursday to significantly ramp up audit rates of wealthy taxpayers and large corporations, using funds provided by the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act that passed in 2022.
The audit rate of taxpayers earning more than $10 million is expected to increase by 50%, going up from 11% in 2019 to 16.5% in 2026. The IRS also plans to triple the audit rates of large corporations with assets over $250 million, as well as increase the audit rates of business partnerships with assets over $10 million by tenfold over the seven-year period.
Despite the expected increases, audit rates wont exceed those reached in 2010 because the number of filings by large corporations, partnerships and wealthy individuals have grown and become more complex, the IRS said.
The IRS is using the influx of money provided by the Inflation Reduction Act to modernize the agency, improve services for taxpayers and collect more tax revenue from those who have not been paying what they owe. But Republicans, concerned that small businesses and the middle class could be targeted by IRS auditors, have made several efforts to chip away at the agencys funding.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/02/politics/irs-audit-tax-rates-wealthy/index.html
brewens
(13,716 posts)squalling like little bed wetting mama's boys because they might get caught cheating.
jimfields33
(16,320 posts)The tax laws are too complex even for the IRS which they mentioned in the story.
Think. Again.
(9,156 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,044 posts)Fix the tax system.
jimfields33
(16,320 posts)Response to jimfields33 (Reply #4)
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twodogsbarking
(10,044 posts)That is a fifty percent increase but not a number. Where does wealthy start?
jimfields33
(16,320 posts)Here's the most eye-opening statistic. Some 23,456 U.S. households reported income of $10 million or more last year (that is, for the 2018 tax year), averaging more than $26 million each in taxable income. The IRS audited seven of them. That comes to less than three-hundredths of a percent.
twodogsbarking
(10,044 posts)That should fix everything.
jimfields33
(16,320 posts)into perspective and not a good one.
twodogsbarking
(10,044 posts)jimfields33
(16,320 posts)Think. Again.
(9,156 posts)...just auditing everybody randomly?
Like, in a fair system?
Traurigkeit
(595 posts)Not wealthy
NanaCat
(1,755 posts)This warms the very depths of my cold, black heart.
mpcamb
(2,887 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,090 posts)On the other hand, it might be a bit tactical to watch and see who increased their political donations, and to whom?
Martin68
(23,078 posts)money.
Martin68
(23,078 posts)BaronChocula
(1,669 posts)Even those considering voting for trermp who would reverse this crackdown. So many people in this country have a fuc*ed thought process.
AllaN01Bear
(19,083 posts)patphil
(6,276 posts)And what will they get for all their effort? Very little indeed! They would probably spend more on these audits than they take in.
They're going after the big bucks, where millions of tax dollars can be recovered in a single audit.
That's the real reason the Republicans want to cut funding...they and their corporate buddies are gonna lose some money.
SupportSanity
(263 posts)they target small businesses because of lack of funding. Lack of funding equals lack of manpower. And with small business audits, results are pretty quick so explained to me by the tax guru of a small business -- a financial company.
He also said that it takes a lot of time and money to go after the big guys. It can take years for results - if at all.
I guess that makes sense.
So, if you're president of the USA and your friends are influential billionaires, cutting funding to the IRS might be a priority.
BumRushDaShow
(130,491 posts)funding to the IRS might be a priority."
But not only that, appointing the Treasury Secretary and IRS Commissioner to refuse to honor subponeas for tax records with claims that they are "still under audit" or there was no "legislative purpose" - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/mnuchin-says-will-defy-house-democrats-subpoena-for-trumps-tax-returns.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/05/politics/irs-commissioner-charles-rettig-trump-taxes/index.html
TexasBushwhacker
(20,266 posts)Not only will they recover $$$ billions in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, some cheaters will decide the risk is to great and just do their taxes right the first time.
LeftInTX
(25,939 posts)Mr. Sparkle
(2,966 posts)rather then give gop a bunch of new donors in an election year.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)-misanthroptimist
(836 posts)I mean, that's a 50% increase, right?
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