How is it misleading? It's an incredibly simple statement that the rich are audited at a higher rate than the average person isn't it? I didn't say that more wealthy are audited than the common folk because it seems common sense that due to large disparity in population (common vs wealthy), that of course there are more common people audited than wealthy. I'm simply pointing out that this guys statement is incorrect, misleading, and intended to incite anger.

"the IRS has not enough staff to investigatevif rich people pay their fair share, therefore they go mostly for normal people."

Please ignore my negative initial vote score, as I have the privilege of being bot-downvoted by CCP sympathizers because of comments on this post https://lemmy.world/post/2338419, there is also the possibility that I'm just an asshole.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your statistic doesn't support your conclusion. His statement is not contradicted, and is in fact true.

Several articles about how poorer taxpayers are significantly more likely to be targeted:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-targeted-poorest-taxpayers-millionaires-went-unscathed-2022-report

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-audit-eitc-five-times-as-likely-to-get-audited/

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor

An article about how audit rates are dropping in general, and dropping fastest for those with the highest incomes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2022/05/18/irs-tax-return-audit-rates-plummet/?sh=642e0b711cca

[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are dying on an an hill made of data manipulated by new outlets that profit off of your attention. Below is an image from a 2019 GAO report that displays the audit rates with more granularity.

Even your own sources (https://trac.syr.edu/reports/706/ referenced in your Fox Article) with 2022 still show that income greater than 1M is audited at 2.38% vs income <$25K with EITC is at 1.27%. You just keep beating up your own argument.

My statistics do support my statement that the IRS audit rates for the rich are higher than normal people, and in fact higher than the poorest. His statement is, again, incorrect, misleading, and intended to incite anger.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104960

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are dying on an an hill made of data chosen in piecemeal by news outlets that profit off of your attention.

mk bud. i cant believe you still dont understand why those rates are misleading. good luck out there

[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i don’t see how they can be misleading. the average person understands the difference between rates/percentages and resulting totals.

are you suggesting that the wealthy get audited at such an increased rate so that their total number of audits are the same as normal people? that would require almost 100% of all returns to be audited which is ridiculous.

i’m ok with being wrong and learning, but none what what you suggest is fair or makes any sense