The Internal Revenue Service or IRS went after poor people for audits far more than wealthy people in 2022.
Poor people faced a significantly higher chance in 2022 of being audited by President Joe Biden’s IRS than both rich and middle-class earners, according to a Syracuse University study.
In fact, no group faced as much scrutiny from the IRS as those who made below $25,000, the university’s data-gathering center found. Among families that benefited from the earned income tax credit, a rebate on income and payroll taxes made available to the nation’s poorest families, 1.27 percent were audited. The IRS in 2022 audited just 0.19 percent of the vast majority of taxpayers, meaning the poorest families were at least 550 percent more likely to have the IRS knock on their door than the average filer.
These families were also more likely to receive a regular audit by the IRS than families that reported over $1 million in income, of which just over 1 percent faced regular audits. In total, the IRS audited a total 626,204 taxpayers out of more than 164 million in the 2022 fiscal year. The bulk of those audits were of filers in the lowest income group.
The new data raise questions about the IRS’s auditing strategy as it stands to benefit from $80 billion in new funding that the Biden administration plans to use for new hires. Republicans have alleged that despite White House promises to the contrary, middle-class and poor Americans will face more audits due to the 87,000 new IRS employees the agency plans to hire.
Simply put, the IRS is a terrorist organization that terrorizes normal people while billionaires and mega corporations use loopholes and armies of accountants to avoid paying taxes. If they weren’t, why are they going after poor people like this? It’s utterly ridiculous.
It is also worth noting that the tax code contains thousands of pages of incomprehensible nonsense. This is purposefully intentional. It makes it impossible for normal people to understand and allows the people who have armies of accountants to take advantage of the loopholes.
The entire income tax system should be abolished. It’s a totally unjust and ridiculous system. It’s nothing more than a mechanism to rob the American people of their wealth and financially enslave them.
