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SWBTATTReg

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6. Exactly. As an auditor, I've always wondered at this stupid decision tree that they used
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 03:23 PM
Jul 2022

to determine who gets audited and who doesn't. Now, I can understand obvious mistakes on tax returns, or perhaps outsiders alerting the IRS to cases of fraud (it does happen), and now of course, with the revenge thing RUMP is involved with, that the IRS would move to act on such returns.

The IRS should concentrate their efforts on the, let's say top 5 to 10% of all income earners, I think that far more tax dollars would be recovered, since they (the top 10%) seem to employ more iffy tax schemes (they pay accountants, lawyers too, who spend literally all of their time cutting their clients' taxes to zero if possible). And these audits, since fewer in scope can more effectively concentrate on truly who's cheating the tax man.

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