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Audits for everyone

by qgin 2y ago

Audits for everyone

beej71 2y ago
It will definitely be trained to not audit billionaires.
- econ 2y ago
  To hunt down people who talk unfavorably about the great leader.
bdangubic 2y ago
correct - as long as they don’t make 7-figures. anyone over 7-figures is auto-exempt
- thegrim33 2y ago
  "Last September the IRS announced it would hire 3,700 new agents to help increase scrutiny of taxes paid by corporations, wealthy people and the private investment funds they increasingly favor. " [https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/02/inside-the-irs-unit-taking-on-americas-millionaires-and-billionaires/ https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/02/inside-the-irs-unit...] "IRS launches new effort aimed at high-income non-filers; 125,000 cases focused on high earners, including millionaires" [https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-at-high-income-non-filers-125000-cases-focused-on-high-earners-including-millionaires-who-failed-to-file-tax-returns-with-financial-activity-topping-100-billion https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-a...] "The Internal Revenue Service today announced the agency has surpassed the $1 billion mark in collections from high-wealth taxpayers with past-due taxes. " [https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-tops-1-billion-in-past-due-taxes-collected-from-millionaires-compliance-efforts-continue-involving-high-wealth-groups-corporations-partnerships https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-tops-1-billion-in-past-due-...] -- Your ideological view of reality and what the IRS are objectively doing do not seem to remotely line up.
  - bdangubic 2y ago
    did you just provide links from Biden administration and have missed we have a new President? :)
  - nickthegreek 2y ago
    You know they are about to fire thousands of them right? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-prepares-lay-off-thousands-workers-nyt-reports-2025-02-14/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-prepares-lay-off-tho...
  - throw0101d 2y ago
    > Your ideological view of reality and what the IRS are objectively doing do not seem to remotely line up. Except that Project 2025 wants to freeze the IRS budget and hiring: > Doubling the IRS? The Inflation Reduction Act contains a radical $80 billion expansion of the IRS—enough to double the size of its workforce.34 Unless Congress reverses this policy, the IRS will become much more intrusive and impose still greater costs on the American people. * https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-22.pdf https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...

Audits for everyone

by qgin 2y ago

Audits for everyone

beej71 2y ago

It will definitely be trained to not audit billionaires.

econ 2y ago
To hunt down people who talk unfavorably about the great leader.

bdangubic 2y ago

correct - as long as they don’t make 7-figures. anyone over 7-figures is auto-exempt

thegrim33 2y ago
"Last September the IRS announced it would hire 3,700 new agents to help increase scrutiny of taxes paid by corporations, wealthy people and the private investment funds they increasingly favor. " [https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/02/inside-the-irs-unit-taking-on-americas-millionaires-and-billionaires/ https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/02/inside-the-irs-unit...] "IRS launches new effort aimed at high-income non-filers; 125,000 cases focused on high earners, including millionaires" [https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-at-high-income-non-filers-125000-cases-focused-on-high-earners-including-millionaires-who-failed-to-file-tax-returns-with-financial-activity-topping-100-billion https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-a...] "The Internal Revenue Service today announced the agency has surpassed the $1 billion mark in collections from high-wealth taxpayers with past-due taxes. " [https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-tops-1-billion-in-past-due-taxes-collected-from-millionaires-compliance-efforts-continue-involving-high-wealth-groups-corporations-partnerships https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-tops-1-billion-in-past-due-...] -- Your ideological view of reality and what the IRS are objectively doing do not seem to remotely line up.
- bdangubic 2y ago
  did you just provide links from Biden administration and have missed we have a new President? :)
- nickthegreek 2y ago
  You know they are about to fire thousands of them right? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-prepares-lay-off-thousands-workers-nyt-reports-2025-02-14/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-prepares-lay-off-tho...
- throw0101d 2y ago
  > Your ideological view of reality and what the IRS are objectively doing do not seem to remotely line up. Except that Project 2025 wants to freeze the IRS budget and hiring: > Doubling the IRS? The Inflation Reduction Act contains a radical $80 billion expansion of the IRS—enough to double the size of its workforce.34 Unless Congress reverses this policy, the IRS will become much more intrusive and impose still greater costs on the American people. * https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-22.pdf https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...