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Do those complaint about the racial bais in the way the IRS set up their systems propose changing the set up? For EITC I would imagine the IRS does simple date,

Do those complaint about the racial bais in the way the IRS set up their systems propose changing the set up? For EITC I would imagine the IRS does simple date, math, and duplicate checking. Should the IRS turn these checks off for equity reasons? These are rhe common reasons for EITC denial... Your Child Doesn’t Qualify More than One Person Claimed the Child Social Security Number or Last Name Don’t Match Married and Filed as Single Head of Household Over or Underreporting Your Income or Expenses

vidarh 3y ago
There's too little info to go on in the article. If it is true, as they might possibly seem to imply, that they triggered more audits but didn't find cheating at an elevated rate over other subsets, then the first step to do would be to look at what assumptions were made about how EITC correlates with cheating or ucaught errors that'd justify an audit, and whether there's data to support those assumptions.