“High-Income Returns Escape Audit Because IRS Not Hiring Enough Revenue Agents
A critical limitation in the IRS’s ability to audit millionaires is the availability of IRS revenue agents. Only this class of auditors, given sufficient training and experience, are qualified to examine complex tax returns – the types of returns typically filed by high-income individuals and large-scale businesses.
With severe budget constraints, IRS has tended to trade off the replacement of revenue agents with hiring more tax examiners. These certainly are paid less, but they are also less knowledgeable. While revenue agents used to outnumber tax examiners, this has slowly shifted over time.
Since the end of FY 2010, the number of IRS revenue agents has dropped by 41 percent. Initially, the number of tax examiners also fell although not at the same rate. By FY 2016, tax examiners began to outnumber revenue agents for the first time. During FY 2020 and FY 2021, major increases took place in the hiring of tax examiners. Thus, the number of tax examiners has regained all of their lost ground and were actually 1 percent higher than in 2010. See Figure 4 and Table 3.“
More than likely, and I do know that President Trump was audited every year even before he became president. Trump made his money in real-estate and he lost money in office.
Now, you tell me how Pelosi, the Clinton’s and Obama became multi millionaires working for the government.
Sounds like they’re making excuse as to why they’re auditing poorest people.
Now I understand they should audit those receiving government benefits…because I know few…actually lot of people collecting SSI or those that can’t work but are doing work on the side.
But the facts remain. The poorest people are being audit 5 times the rate.
Attempting to get blood out of a rocking isn’t going to fund the IRS itself let alone reducing the deficit. And that’s a fact.