Mapping IRS Tax Return Filings Reveals Marked Differences in the Distribution of Income and Dependents
2023-04-27 Latest figures on reported income on federal income returns varied markedly across states and counties. Massachusetts had the highest average reported income, followed by Connecticut and Washington State. The lowest with only half that of the top three states was Mississippi. West Virginia and New Mexico returns.
IRS Audits Few Millionaires But Targeted Many Low-Income Families in FY 2022
2023-01-04 While the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act
provides the IRS with a large expansion of future funding to beef up audits of the rich, last year
IRS revenue agents were only able to audit a small number of millionaire returns Ð just one out of
every hundred -- lower than the effective audit rate for the lowest income wage-earners.
IRS Continues Targeting Poorest Families for More Tax Audits During FY 2022
2022-03-29 Internal Revenue Service Commissioner
in state of denial over latest IRS statistics revealing that the agency is continuing to target
audits on the poorest wage earners. Audit numbers for these low-income wage earners with less than
$25,000 in total gross receipts increased compared to a year ago.
IRS Audits Poorest Families at Five Times the Rate for Everyone Else
2022-03-08 Last year in FY 2021, the IRS audited
just 4 out of every 1,000 returns filed (0.4%). Audit rates in general have been dropping for many
years.
Millionaires and Corporate Giants Escape IRS Audits Again in FY 2020
2021-03-18 At a time of growing economic
inequality and financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government is
letting billions of dollars in tax revenue slip through its fingers because budget and staffing
cuts have left the IRS incapable of auditing the 637,212 millionaires now living in the United
States.
Is Your Income Higher Now Than 10 Years Ago? It Depends On Where You Live
2020-04-15 Where you reside has had a major
impact on the relative change in prosperity families experience. Some counties saw a doubling of
average adjusted gross incomes while taxpayers in other counties experienced declines.
Federal Civil Tax Suits Fall by Half Over Last Decade
2020-01-22 Federal civil tax suits filed during
the first quarter of FY 2020 continue to fall. Over half of the suits filed by taxpayers were
suits for refunds of taxes or penalties.
Millionaires and Corporate Giants Escaped IRS Audits in FY 2018
2019-03-07 The latest alarming data reveal that
97 out of every 100 taxpayers reporting over a million dollars of income were not audited last
year. And for these millionaires the puny number of IRS audits has been cut in half since 2010
Nearly Half of Corporate Giants Escape IRS Audit in 2017
2018-04-09 Almost half of the 616 largest
corporations in the country - those with over $20 billion in assets - were not even audited by the
IRS last year. While the number of corporate giants are increasing, the actual number that are
audited has steadily fallen.
Taxpayers Referred for Criminal Prosecution by IRS Reach New Low
2018-03-26 Data now show that the number of IRS
referrals for criminal prosecution are down substantially from their peak four years ago when the
agency had referred more than twice the number.
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