There are many, many more tax returns filed by people earning under 200k adjusted gross income than those earning more, I assume. So if there's a uniform chance that a return is audited, we would expect most audits to be done on returns under that threshold.

Of course, it may not make sense to select returns uniformly at random for audits...

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ryandrake 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also, if tax cheating is uniform across the population, then the statement "there are more tax cheats earning under 200k" is true but wildly misleading, since "there are more taxpayers earning under 200k" is also true.

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mothballed 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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oklahomasports 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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buttercraft 8 hours ago | parent [-]

In other words, understaffed agency goes for the low hanging fruit

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oklahomasports 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Weird way to frame it. The computer does it automatically. They would do it whether they were well staffed or not.

	▲	johnnyanmac 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.