Nowhere near 48% of the population earns enough wages for EITC but still under 25k. It's way way way way overrepresented in audits. Nearly half of the audits are aimed at the poorest workers.
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.... they were audits according to IRS. This is from the FOIA'd audit numbers from IRS via TRAC.
They are not audits. They are automated notices to idiots trying to claim the same child tax credit in multiple returns or hiding income(not reporting their w2 lol) to claim the EITC
In other words, understaffed agency goes for the low hanging fruit
Weird way to frame it. The computer does it automatically. They would do it whether they were well staffed or not.
The computer does not do all the loopholes and tax codes automatically. If it did that would solve a lot of these problems. But we need audits in the cases companies or people lie/exaggerate/forget/etc.