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But if you as a citizen owe 1000USD, you'll be pursued more. Its completely messed up, but that's the current rules of the system. Without going into politics, they play by the stretched rules.
>But if you as a citizen owe 1000USD, you'll be pursued more. Is the IRS really auditing people over $1000 in taxes (under $4000 of revenue/income)?
> On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says.
https://www.propublica.org/article/earned-income-tax-credit-...
> Since Smick, who is taking classes toward a bachelor’s degree, and her husband, a chef, together earned around $33,000 in 2017, about $2,000 of that refund would come from the earned income tax credit. [...] But no refund came. Instead, she got a letter from the IRS saying it was “conducting a thorough review” of her return.
https://www.propublica.org/article/whos-afraid-of-the-irs-no...
> the same year that Facebook started moving profits to Ireland, the IRS launched a team to crack down on deals like that. The effort started aggressively. [...] But shortly after the IRS showed this new ambition, Republicans in Congress, after taking the House in 2010, began forcing cuts to the IRS’ budget. Over the years, as Facebook grew into one of the world’s largest companies, with 2 billion users, the IRS was shrinking. By the time the IRS finally took on Facebook over its Irish deal a few years later, the agency was in over its head.