So the government collected 1.3 B from 100k taxpayers who haven't filed taxes for six years. If we do the math this is 13000 per tax payer or about 2.5 k per y

So the government collected 1.3 B from 100k taxpayers who haven't filed taxes for six years. If we do the math this is 13000 per tax payer or about 2.5 k per year. So these high net worth individuals attempting to evade taxes owed... 2500 dollars each year. To me that signals that they're likely not residents or making their money in America and had tax liability for some marginal reason. That's the only way you owe 2.5 k per year on a high income. But yes, when you do the math, it does seem a little ridiculous. I pay a lot more in federal taxes. Either IRS failed to collect the full amount owed, of these were people caught in some bizarre technicality where they owed chump change to the government and didn't know.