No they don't. People abuse statistics to give this impression but the IRS is pretty clear that it is simply untrue. A great deal of the deception comes from th

No they don't. People abuse statistics to give this impression but the IRS is pretty clear that it is simply untrue. A great deal of the deception comes from the fact that there are many more poor people than rich people, so on the face of it it's easy to mislead people into thinking that the IRS goes mostly after poor people, but when you normalize against income distribution, the IRS is far far far more likely to go after you if you're rich than if you're poor, and the results come directly from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/irs-audit-rates-significantly-increase-as-income-rises https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/irs-audit-rates-significantly-...