Just an example from the city I live in: The tax office doesn't go after the worst offenders it mainly goes after the ones where they can get the most money ou

Just an example from the city I live in: The tax office doesn't go after the worst offenders it mainly goes after the ones where they can get the most money out for the least effort. But the worst offenders often have all kind of fallback strategies and good tax lawers so it's costly to get them and you likely never see the money. So instead they go after small one/two/three people companies as they are most likely to make some easy to spot mistake when making taxes which you then can spin out of control. That this often will lead to less taxes earned on the long run due to small tax paying companies going out of business due to a small mistake being turned into a big thing no one cares. This also leads to absurdities that certain kinds of businesses are seldomly tax checked and in turn often used to do massive money laundering.