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The vote came as The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University released data showing the IRS audits low-income taxpayers more than America’s richest ones, according to Fox News.
The group’s report said computer-generated letters to taxpayers amounted to 85 percent of IRS auditing activity in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30.
Overall, audits fell from 659,003 in the 2021 fiscal year to 626,204 in the 2022 fiscal year, the report stated.
The group found that the chance of a taxpayer in the lowest bracket being audited was 12.7 per 1,000, For those in the highest bracket, the odds of an audit were 2.3 per 1,000.
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