A Boring Dystopia

The agency will focus on wealthy individuals and large corporations:

• The IRS plans to triple the audit rates on large corporations with assets of more than $250 million. Audit rates for these companies will rise to 22.6% in tax year 2026 from 8.8% in 2019.
• Large partnerships with assets of more than $10 million will see their audit rates increase 10-fold, rising to 1% in tax year 2026 from 0.1% in 2019.
• Wealthy individuals with total positive income of more than $10 million will see their audit rates rise 50% to 16.5% from 11% in 2019.

"There is no new wave of audits coming from middle- and low-income [individuals], coming from mom and pops. That's not in our plans," Werfel said.

But this is actually a good thing? They will be targeting wealthy enterprises to pay what they owe.

The opposite of dystopian, this seems like a great thing. And this isn't even raising tax rates; just enforcing the laws we already have.

Reminder for folks that the dystopia is often in the details. It's not who or how much they're going to audit in this instance, it's how frequently the wealthy were being audited before and how it's still significantly lower than it should be for the wealthy.

Werfel noted that the IRS' strategic plan over the next three tax years include a sharp increase in audits, although the agency reiterated it won't boost its enforcement for people who earn less than $400,000 annually — which covers the bulk of U.S. taxpayers.

Saved you a click.

Wrong sub weirdo.

I'm already about to lose my house and starve to death, fucking bring it