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usonian

(19,901 posts)
Wed Sep 13, 2023, 07:02 PM Sep 2023

The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes

The top 1% of U.S. income earners fail to report more than 20% of their earnings to the IRS.

The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelligence tools, the agency has new means of targeting wealthy people who have “cut corners” on their taxes.

“If you pay your taxes on time, it should be particularly frustrating when you see that wealthy filers are not,” Werfel told reporters in a call previewing the announcement. He said 1,600 millionaires who owe at least $250,000 each in back taxes and 75 large business partnerships that have assets of roughly $10 billion on average are targeted for the new “compliance efforts.”

Werfel said a massive hiring effort and AI research tools developed by IRS employees and contractors are playing a big role in identifying wealthy tax dodgers. The agency is making an effort to showcase positive results from its burst of new funding under President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration as Republicans in Congress look to claw back some of that money.

“New tools are helping us see patterns and trends that we could not see before, and as a result, we have higher confidence on where to look and find where large partnerships are shielding income,” he said.


Bad news for those "tax havens".

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2023-09-08/the-irs-plans-to-crack-down-on-1600-millionaires-to-collect-millions-of-dollars-in-back-taxes.html
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The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes (Original Post) usonian Sep 2023 OP
Gee.... Think. Again. Sep 2023 #1
 

Think. Again.

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1. Gee....
Wed Sep 13, 2023, 08:36 PM
Sep 2023

...what a novel idea, the IRS collecting taxes from everyone regardless of ...well...anything.

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