Democrats press IRS over report that it failed to audit high-income non-filers

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Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee are pressing the IRS about a watchdog’s finding that the agency did not address hundreds of thousands of high-income people who failed to file tax returns.

In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, the senators said that the report "spotlights an array of examples where the IRS either came up short in its enforcement efforts regarding the highest-earning tax dodgers, or did not even make the effort to pursue them."

The IRS defines high-income non-filers as those with income of at least $100,000 who fail to file a tax return.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report earlier this month that found that there were nearly 880,000 high-income non-filers in tax years 2014 through 2016 who had an estimated tax due of $45.7 billion. The agency’s compliance personnel never worked on many of these cases. - The Hill

You'd think that Conservatards would be slobbering all over getting their hands on $45.7B in treasury funds they could squander on those who've lobbied them. Oh wait, they're the same people!

[jimfields33]

1. IRS should just send them a bill

Whatever the percentage is for 100,000 and higher. No deductions of anything but penalties and interest added. That’s the easiest way to wake them up. If Not paid or at least an IRS deal with payments then it goes out of the bank account in six months. Done! Not hard at all.