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Data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University shows the IRS audited the lowest-income Americans—"wage earners with less than $25,000 in total gross receipts"—at five times the rate of everyone else during government fiscal year 2021.
"A large increase in federal income tax audits targeting the poorest wage earners allowed the Internal Revenue Service to keep overall audit numbers from further declines for Americans as a whole," TRAC reports.
In 2021, the IRS conducted 306,944 audits of the lowest-income earners and 352,059 audits of people of all other income levels, according to TRAC. Just 39,449 audits were of people with taxable incomes between $200,000 and $1 million per year.
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