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Analysts with Syracuse’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which draws on IRS data, found that the IRS audit of 1.3% of low-income earners in 2021 was up from 0.79% in 2020. The 2021 audit rate reflected closer scrutiny of filers claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, but so far in 2022, the IRS is on track to further increase the frequency of audits on low-income filers, according to the Syracuse researchers.
Through February, the IRS is on pace to audit low-income filers at a rate of 13.5 per 1,000, up from 13 per 1,000 in 2021, and 7.9 in 2019, according to the TRAC data. By contrast, the audit rates for all other income levels stood at a projected 2.2 per 1,000 filers in 2022, which would be roughly in line with the past two years: 2.6 in 2021; 2.0 in 2020.
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