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0xyyesterday at 8:52 PM1 replyview on HN

The notion that audits should be evenly distributed is nonsense. Someone making sub-$200K usually has basic W2 income, versus someone making $20M a year who likely has an extremely complicated web of capital gains, deductions, strategies, carry-forward losses etc.

It doesn't even make sense from a pure cash point of view. It's better for an agent to audit someone making $20M and win a $500K judgement than it is for them to audit 1,000 $25K earners and fleece them $500 a piece. What a waste.

Audits should be exponentially lopsided, not targeted exclusively at the middle class.


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adolphtoday at 2:31 AM

Why bother commenting if you don't have any data to back up your assertion?

You can make claims about what "should" happen but that is just your fact-free opinion.