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 Putting TRAC to Work |
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Congress of the United States |
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April 12, 2022 |
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Letter to Secretary Yellen and Commissioner Rettig
By Elizabeth Warren, US Senator and Judy Chu, Member of Congress
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The IRS audits the poorest Americans at a disproportionately high and rising rate. A
recent analysis of FY2021 tax data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)
at Syracuse University found that the IRS audits low-income families with less than $25,000 in
gross receipts at five times the rate of everyone else. This TRAC analysis of IRS data shows that
0.79% of low-income wage earners (188,431) were audited in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, and that
percentage nearly doubled to 1.3% (306,944 earners) in FY2021.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2022
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