Rick Wilson, David Corn & Catherine Rampell
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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The ROI of IRS Audits
For the bottom half of the income distribution, on average, the IRS basically breaks even. For the people in like the top 1% for every dollar that the IRS spends auditing them, they get back about three bucks. The amount of additional tax revenue that comes in from sort of chastened taxpayers is roughly triple what gets recovered from the initial audit.
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