Currently, the IRS has audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other taxpayers. The number of audits will grow, and the proportion of who is audited may shift.
In Wisconsin, meanwhile, Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson weighed in Aug. 7, 2022, the day the Senate approved the measure, with aciting a litany of grievances with the IRS and this claim:"Last year, the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
Indeed, in the 2021 fiscal year, that sort of audit accounted for 85% of all audits, up from about 80% in the previous two years.“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”The analysis noted a similar phenomenon occurred more than 20 years ago, amid a cutback in IRS staff.
"We audit high-income taxpayers more than any other category in the Internal Revenue Service," Rettig said."Taxpayers reflecting over $10 million of income are audited at a rate exceeding 7%. Taxpayers at the $25,000 level, which is primarily — the earned income taxpayer would be the only people we would look at, are audited at 1.1%."
Holtzblatt said audits of 2016 tax returns would have begun, at the earliest, in 2017. So at the time of the preparation of the 2020 Data Book, the audit data for 2016 returns were the most recent year outside the statute of limitations for audits. So, it’s the total number of audits possible for 2016 returns.
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