Republicans Will Not Agree to More IRS Enforcement

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Republicans Will Not Agree to More IRS Enforcement

July 18, 2021 at 12:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 101 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/18/republicans-will-not-agree-to-more-irs-enforcement/

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“The GOP’s lead negotiator for a bipartisan infrastructure bill said Sunday that lawmakers had nixed increased IRS enforcement as a proposed way to pay for the package,” NBC News reports.

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To get a feel for what it is like to live in a corrupt nation read:

Behind The Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo. It explains what the GOP want for the US. The government is either for lifting people up or for exploiting them. I could not put it down despite how harrowing it was.

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Book Rating by Shortform Readers: 4.8 (105 reviews)

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a 2012 nonfiction account of the lives of residents of a slum in Mumbai called Annawadi, which sat adjacent to the Mumbai International Airport. U.S. author and journalist Katherine Boo follows the stories of a handful of the slum’s residents, including that of Abdul Husain, whose family’s fight with a neighbor changes the course of his life.

The poverty and hardship faced by the slum’s people reflect a globalized world—offering more wealth and supposedly more opportunity, but where many still struggle to survive day to day. The poor try to exploit one another to get ahead, and government officials and agencies exploit the poor, leaving them with little power and few resources.

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https://www.shortform.com/summary/behind-the-beautiful-forevers-summary-katherine-boo?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgdLNgqPt8QIVnmxvBB1EGgfTEAAYASAAEgJa6_D_BwE

[pandr32]

1. Wouldn't this be a way to help fund other things?

[WarGamer]

2. I have mixed feelings about IRS enforcement.

In my experience, the IRS spends a LOT of resources harassing low income earners because they're self-employed or part of the gig economy.

My swimming pool guy got audited a few years back... I Know a dog walker and a groomer who were audited.

The reason why? Because it's low hanging fruit. They're not going to hire tax attorneys or fight the IRS, they'll just get on their knees and comply.

Make the law say that no one under $100k a year gets audited.

[atreides1]

6. Okay

If you didn't have the resources, wouldn't you go after the easiest targets? That's what the IRS does...they don't have the resources to take on the corporations or the 1%...but if given those resources, I would bet the IRS would go after the real tax cheats and leave the low hanging fruit alone.

Any law like you suggest would be challenged and would likely be overturned by John Roberts and his 5 conservative buddies!!!

[Claire Oh Nette]

11. Low risk for audit

chart shows % of audits at various income levels:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-the-odds-being-audited.html

SOme trigggers:
If your return looks strange, your chances of being audited go way up. For example:

Returns with extremely large deductions in relation to income

lots of deductions for auto, travel, and meal expenses.

Casualty losses and bad debt deductions

Businesses showing multiple year losses, must be more there—otherwise, why stay in business?

Deductions out of character. WHen I changed careers and began to teach, I got sound advice about how to deduct education expenses that took advantage of the tax codes. The IRS looks for disruptions in patterns. Establish a baseline, this professor, said, and they'll leave you alone. This was 30 years ago, but rings true.

[Walleye]

3. So they must all be cheating on their taxes

“We don’t need new laws, we just need to enforce the ones on the books”. If I’ve heard it once I heard 1000 times from Republicans

[rickyhall]

7. IRS should audit every damn one of them. This is an admission of guilt.

[Walleye]

8. Yes. Send them to the front of the auditing line

[Mad_Machine76]

9. IKR LOL

[gohuskies]

4. The GQPis openly a bunch of tax cheats

Lock them all up

[sunonmars]

5. Tax the shit out of those churches

[Wounded Bear]

10. Of course they won't...