With all the changes at the IRS, how likely are you to be audited? It’s unclear

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Nobody wants to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). And, in fact, very few American taxpayers have been in recent years. Less than 1% of all returns filed between 2013 and 2021 had been audited by the end of the 2023 tax year, according to IRS data. More specifically, just 0.44% of individual returns and 0.74% of corporate returns. That's in part because, for many years, the agency didn't have a consistent lev…

Why and How To Fire 42,000 IRS Agents… - LewRockwell

The true scandal of current American fiscal governance needs be commented on. Or, better still, hammered upon good and hard. To wit, the American electorate apparently doesn’t give a shit about runaway government spending because as a practical matter the overwhelming share of voters don’t pay the taxes to fund it. Aside from social insurance taxes, which most payroll taxpayers still believe to be a premium for a government-sponsored retirement …

IRS firepower: Actions speak louder than words

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has revealed that employees of the Internal Revenue Service owe about $50 million in back taxes.  The problem extends far beyond the IRS: In Fiscal Year 2021, the IRS found that 149,000 federal employ...

With all the changes at the IRS, how likely are you to be audited? It’s unclear

No one wants to be audited by the IRS. And, in fact, very few US taxpayers have been in recent years.