• Hirom@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    The amount of effort and resources that’s required to collect taxes and catch cheaters is mind-boggling.

    Many countries would benefit from simplifying the tax code, scrubbing a few loopholes. ie make it harder to cheat, cheaper to collect, so the resources get spent somewhere else.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t think it’s always deficiencies in the tax code that they’re exploiting so much as complex networks of shell companies and offshore accounts to hide the income in the first place.

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    10 months ago

    Biden Crackdown Hauls In $520 Million In Back Taxes From The Ultrawealthy

    Using new funding earmarked for the IRS to target wealthy and corporate tax cheats, the IRS since mid-2022 has collected more than $520 million from about 1,600 households with income of more than $1 million and that are known to have unpaid tax bills of more than $250,000.

    […]The money [to fund the IRS] comes from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Known as the Biden administration’s climate and infrastructure bill, the $369 billion law also set aside $78 billion over the next decade for the IRS to hire customer support staff for ordinary taxpayers and new auditors who would focus on the filings of the ultrarich.