Americans owe the IRS $688 billion in unpaid taxes, underscoring need for more audits, said IRS Commissioner.
  • worldwidewaveEnglish
    82•8 months ago

    The IRS has said it won’t increase audits on households earning less than $400,000 annually.

    Going after rich tax cheats is one of those bipartisan policies that only Republican politicians and their rich donors oppose. Fund the IRS and make these rich assholes pay their fair shares!

    • MelodiousFunk
      22•8 months ago

      Fund the IRS

      You can’t fund the IRS. The IRS is a government agency. And those are awful. Watch, I’ll prove it:

      starves agency of funds for years

      See? They suck. They can barely function. Time to make more cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility!

      see also: EPA, USPS, ED, HHS, DOT, DOL, FCC, FTC, etc.

    • @Guest_User@lemmy.world
      2•8 months ago

      I get the republicans are rich and tax cheats. But do you really think only Republicans are going to oppose it? No rich democrats ever cheated on their taxes?

  • IHeartBadCode
    59•8 months ago

    For everyone not reading the story. The majority of this is from rich people, large businesses, and partnerships. The IRS is indicating that they need to go after those people I just listed more. Why CBS decided to write the headline in a manner that makes it sound like they are coming after everyone, is likely because they knew it would generate more “emotions” about those connotations.

    The agency has said it wants to go after higher earners who skirt their tax obligations in order to help close the tax gap and raise more money for federal coffers

    But the story indicates that the IRS feels like they need to go after rich people even more based on their recently released data. At no point in the story did the IRS indicate that they needed to take the average household and put the clamps on them. Thank you for your time.

  • Fidelity9373
    59•8 months ago

    Insert required Fuck Intuit/TurboTax/CreditKarma here, who spends billions to make the tax system stays as complicated as it is.

    The IRS already knows how much everyone should be paying, so just give us a single bill already.

    • TWeaKEnglish
      13•8 months ago

      That’s how most other countries do it. They give you an estimate, you reply with your deductions or you accept it and do nothing. Easier and cheaper for everyone.

    • @Sertou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44•8 months ago

      At least read the article. Literally the second sentence reads:

      “The agency said that it is taking “urgent” steps to increase compliance such as auditing more high-income taxpayers as well as businesses and partnerships. “

      It goes on later:

      “ The IRS has said it won’t increase audits on households earning less than $400,000 annually.”

    • @Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
      11•8 months ago

      No. Why would they do that? There’s no money there. Poor people are on the hook for hardly any tax anyway. The people who cheat generally own companies or are self employed and often have access to cash. It happens a lot in small businesses. It’s a crime of opportunity. Hard to do it when tax is already deducted from your check before you get it. Easy when you can put yourself on the books for a modest salary and pocket a bunch of cash under the table.

    • IninewCrowEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      IRS: Let’s spend $10 million dollars investigating and prosecuting poor people so that we can get $5 out of them.

  • @lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3•8 months ago

    Americans

    Come on gang, this one’s on all of us. Now we all gotta dig deep and really pitch in to close that gap that we all definitely contributed to equally. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your neighbors: this year, America’s gonna do better.