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I.R.S. Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1 Billion (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 138 points 4 months ago

If auditing millionaires generated a billion dollars, then it stands that auditing billionaires should generate a trillion dollars! /s

Only a little sarcastic, we should audit the shit out of them.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 53 points 4 months ago

Seconded. All in favor?

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Aye

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Move to enforce collections with implements including but not limited to torches and pitchforks.

[-] teodor_from_achewood@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

Thanks Joe Brandon

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

Clearly a waste of money harassing upstanding innovators and job creators. IRS needs to stop wasting money and agent’s time on harassment like this. Defund the IRS.

/s in case it’s not obvious

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

We could probably double that haul with an audit of a couple SCOTUS justices...

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

That seems super low tbh

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

This was the low hanging fruit. The good stuff takes a little more work.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 4 months ago

I wonder how many were close to $1 mm and how many were closer or > $1 Bn?

[-] autotldr 7 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Biden administration’s yearlong effort to crack down on delinquent rich taxpayers has yielded $1 billion, a milestone that the Treasury Department said on Thursday was the result of beefed-up enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service.

The Biden administration, which initially signed a law giving $80 billion to the agency, continues to contend with attempts by Republicans in Congress to claw back more of the money.

“Efforts to increase tax fairness and bring in revenue from high-end taxpayers who have not paid what they owe are already paying off to the American people,” Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said during a briefing with reporters.

commissioner, said that because of the agency’s larger enforcement staff, it has been able to focus on tracking down and sending letters to wealthy taxpayers who owe money.

And it has been ramping up audits of hedge funds and real estate investment partnerships and cracking down on abuse of corporate jets for personal travel.

had been too slow to resolve identify theft cases and that it was not doing a good enough job answering the phones when taxpayers called with questions.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

turn it up

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

MIC seeing this as a bonus

[+] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee -32 points 4 months ago

Wait so we spent $80 billion dollars to recoup $1 billion dollars?! 😵‍💫

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Nope. $60B was allocated to the IRS. They've spent $5.7B of it so far, most of which I'm assuming was for hiring and getting their ducks in a row to start being able to go after the big fish. It's actually pretty impressive that they've found so much revenue in such a short amount of time that would've just not been collected.

It's from January, but here's some other info on this that's a little more in depth than that shitty nyt article.

[-] HONEYBADGER517@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

Not exactly. Per the article only 5.7 bil of the 80 bil has been spent so far. Also per the article, 20bil has also been cut from that total in budget negotiations. And, not all of that goes to tracking down mil/billionaires. An unspecified amount goes to modernizing their systems and improving their ability to respond to calls from taxpayers.

I imagine there are plenty of things not listed that they are doing to improve their resources with the money. Id wager that given time we'll see larger returns on investment as they get through their backlog of unpaid taxes. But that's just my opinion.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

As long as we still have an IRS after November that is.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Oh don't worry, the GOP doesn't want to stop taxing the poors. The IRS will just have absolutely zero enforcement if you make enough money.

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

So far $5.7 billion has been spent. The total approved funds were actually $60 billion. That ratio does seem sketchy, but the article mentions the money will be spent on other upgrades as well, such as customer service, though it fails to go into much detail.

I recall reading that increasing IRS funds tend to yield significantly higher earnings, but the article doesn't provide any depth there. The proposal mentions that they expect to bring in $200 billion. That sounds disappointingly low to me. I was hoping for something more like a 10-1 return, but I imagine auditing those armed to dodge taxes isn't easy.

[-] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago

It can take time too. One of the ways rich people skirt taxes is paying lawyers to drag things out in court. IRS doesn't just have to hire new people to do complicated audits on rich people, they also have to pay lawyers to enforce their findings in the courts. Ramping up new agents to handle the audits and going through any court procedures can take years.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Every extra dollar the IRS gets returns $6. Nice try.

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