Report: IRS Three Times More Likely To Audit Blacks

Biden will spend billions to hire 87,000 more employees amid racism claims

Biden’s administration is moving to hire 87,000 more IRS employees. A new study shows that black Americans have three times the chance of being audited by IRS than other groups.

Economists from three universities and the Treasury Department found that IRS computer algorithms select unjustly black taxpayers for audits. This was despite having controlled for “differences in the types of returns each group is most likely to file,” The New York Times reported.

This study is coming after Congress Republicans voted to reverse nearly $70 Billion in funding that was pushed forward by the Biden Administration to expand the federal government. Previous Study Biden IRS audits of poor Americans were five times more common than those from the middle and rich classes. People earning less than $25,000 were the most likely to be audited.

The Congressional Budget Office upwards of 78 percent of revenue from new audits under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would be from families pulling in less than $200,000 per year.

The IRS will likely be looking for simple audits to perform. New York Times reported:

According to the researchers, I.R.S. The researchers suggest that the I.R.S. has focused on easier audits and, as a consequence, audits disproportionately a historically disadvantaged group than other taxpayers.

The Republican-controlled House passed a bill in its first day under Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) to reverse the nearly $70 billion in funding for mass hiring at the agency. To pull the funding, Rick Scott (Republican senator from Florida) introduced a similar bill to the upper chamber.

Last week, the White House stated that it would sink the “reckless” GOP bill to defund hires. It did not comment on the disproportionate targeting minorities or low-income earners.

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