This is an extremely common misconception (or lie, depending on who's saying it). The IRS, even before the cuts, targets exclusively the middle class.

More agents = more middle class shake downs.

63% of the IRS' audits under the Biden admin targeted those earning sub-$200K.

People earning $25K a year are MORE likely to be audited than those earning $200K, too.

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adolph 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> 63% of the IRS' audits under the Biden admin targeted those earning sub-$200K.

In 2022 92.3% of filers reported income of less than $200K [0]. An audit rate of 63% is lower than what one would expect if audit-attracting behavior was evenly distributed across the population.

0. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-stat...

	▲	0xy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The notion that audits should be evenly distributed is nonsense. Someone making sub-$200K usually has basic W2 income, versus someone making $20M a year who likely has an extremely complicated web of capital gains, deductions, strategies, carry-forward losses etc. It doesn't even make sense from a pure cash point of view. It's better for an agent to audit someone making $20M and win a $500K judgement than it is for them to audit 1,000 $25K earners and fleece them $500 a piece. What a waste. Audits should be exponentially lopsided, not targeted exclusively at the middle class.