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Your own personal IRS agent?

Interesting math behind the Biden plan to hire 80,000 IRS agents to make sure persons and corporations earning over $400,000 per year are paying their fair share.

2,800,000 = the approximate number of American tax filers who earn more than $400,000
80,000 = the number of additions new IRS agents Biden plans to hire to assure the above will pay their fair share
35 = 2,800,000 divided by 80,000

At 35 to 1, this is like someone earning more than $400K will have the equivalent of a personal IRS agent looking over their financial affairs. Contrast this to the 790 to 1 ratio of police officers to citizens in my community. Put another way, the US government is far-far-far-far more focused on the rich 2% paying their taxes than the city is on protecting the people from being murdered, raped, assaulted, robbed, etc. Why so many "far"s? Because 35 to 1 compared to 790 to 1 is a big, big difference.

Digging further into the insanity ....

$100,000 = the annual approximate cost of employing one IRS agent (a pretty conservative estimate)
$2,857 = $100,000 divided by 35

To pay for the 80,000 additional IRS agents, the IRS will have to squeeze an average of an additional $2,857 from everyone earning $400K+ just to pay the salary and benefits of the additional IRS agent hired to make sure the over $400K taxpayers are paying his/her fair share.

How did this kind of crap get into a bill called the "Inflation Reduction Act"? It sounds more like it belongs in a bill designed to fund the Gestapo.
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Elessar · 31-35, M
Good, if they don't have anything to hide they don't have anything to fear.

I thought conservative agreed with this line once.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
Elessar · 31-35, M
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Elessar

Most people and businesses with income of more than $400K/year would likely employ a CPA firm or individual to do at least the tax related part of their accounting as well as the tax return themselves. CPA fees range between $100 and $1,000 per hour. If attorney fees are needed, they would likely be between $500 and $1,000 per hour.

And the above is just to file and pay their taxes.

If one of those rich taxpayers get notification for an audit they will have to again engage their accountants and possibly lawyers to either respond themselves or assist in the response. Guess who will have to pay those bills?

Even if they didn't do anything wrong, they would still have to pay their CPA's bill which could be pretty heafty.
Elessar · 31-35, M
@Heartlander So the solution is, let's let the rich get away with not paying taxes because enforcing the law is going to cost money?

You know how to solve this issue instead? Raise their taxes.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Elessar "Hollywood lawyer paid off over $2M of Hunter Biden’s delinquent taxes"

"biden could owe as much as $500K in back taxes, government report indicates"
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Elessar

So the solution is, let's let the rich get away with not paying taxes because enforcing the law is going to cost money?

Her's a novel idea: simply that end of the tax code..
Elessar · 31-35, M
@Heartlander Here's another idea: everyone pays their amount due, without whining too much
irishmolly72 · 56-60, F