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The Treasury estimates that the amount of taxes the richest people and corporations avoid paying every year is equal to all the taxes the government collects from the bottom 90% of taxpayers.
"We are, quite simply, outgunned," IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told Congress recently.
The agency has relied more and more on audits done by mail, which are easier to do but skew toward lower-earning people. An analysis in March from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University found that the IRS audits people earning less than $25,000 year at five times the rate of everyone else.
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