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A newly released report says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audited low-income earners about five times more than anyone else in the United States.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) says in its report almost half of the audits conducted in 2021 by the IRS targeted America's poorest taxpayers.
"These results are based on internal IRS reports released each month to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University under a court order entered after successful litigation under the Freedom of Information Act," TRAC says in the report.
Released on Tuesday, the report says 306,944 of the audits were conducted by the IRS on taxpayers claiming the "anti-poverty" Earned Income Tax Credit, with those taxpayers earning less than $25,000 a year in total gross receipts. That's out of a total of 659,003 audits conducted in 2021, the report says.
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