The problem existing at the IRS has been Trump's buddy who is commissioner of the IRS, Rettig.
Photo Credit: Paul Brady Photography _____ Like many of former President Trump’s appointees, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig made...Read More
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Rettig is also a long-time Trump defender and associate. When Democrats demanded that Trump release his tax returns during the 2016 presidential election, Rettig, speaking then as a private citizen,
defended Trump’s refusal as a sound decision for someone under audit. After Trump took office, with pressure mounting from congressional Democrats to reveal his tax returns,
Rettig remained outspoken in his support of Trump’s tax opacity. After Trump nominated him, he failed to disclose his financial ties to a Trump-branded hotel in Hawaii prior to his confirmation hearing.
In which has also increased this problem with the IRS:
Audits of Millionaires
Less than 2 out of every 100 taxpayers reporting over a million dollars of income were audited last year
[4]. While the ranks of millionaires have nearly doubled since FY 2012
[5], the number of millionaire returns that were audited has actually fallen 72 percent - down from 40,965 millionaire audits in FY 2012
to just 11,331 in FY 2020. See Figure 2.
In FY 2012, audits of millionaires turned up $4.8 billion in unreported taxes. Now with less than a third the number of audits,
the government uncovered only $1.2 billion in unreported taxes in FY 2020. With 98 percent of millionaires escaping any scrutiny, fewer audits in all likelihood means many millionaires escape paying billions of dollars owed the U.S. Treasury.