Charlie Kirk said the other day that the IRS will be focusing on lower income and middle class taxpayers because they frighten more easily and don't put up the same kind of fight during audits as do rich people. Even people making $25-30,000 a year can expect to be audited, according to Kirk.
I'm not saying that's what will happen, only that Kirk said it.
It would be stupid. What kind of income do they expect to get from say s $50-$60k earner? $500-$600? How much are they paying the auditor to audit that book?
Speaking from experience, they will bleed you for every fucking dime you have. They relish the opportunity to go back 7 years and find where you should have paid another $1,100 and then tack on interest.
That happened to me years ago and at that time I was making around $100,000. Get used to it because that is what socialist/communists do. Do you think that fucking idiot biden paid taxes on his 10% for the big guy? Not a chance.
I have a customer who designs fences and decks for upper middle and wealthy people. His annual income is around $250K. During an audit he was out quoting jobs and his wife mistakenly offered up the books to an IRS agent performing an audit. She fucked up and don't even start with the "she should have known better" because this is a small family owned business that provides a quality service for homeowners, they were just trying to make it and started the company from scratch. The agent found that they had mistakenly not paid their full amount of workers comp. An honest mistake as they were unaware of exactly what the law was. They paid in $50K a year and were supposed to be putting in somewhere close to 75K. The IRS is now demanding $500K in back taxes which includes interest which will put the company out of business. These are not rich people. The legal fees to defend themselves alone will put them out of business and force them to declare bankruptcy putting 24 people out of work. Now imagine 87,000 more IRS agents prowling for their next piece of destruction so that the fed can promote them.
A lot of entrepreneurs are great at providing a product or service, many of them are not good business people. They aren't trying to defraud the country on taxes, they are just ignorant.
That doesn't make sense. Workers comp is a state tax. Why were the feds looking at that?
As someone who has been audited like 5-6 times, I agree it’s not related to the Feds. Feds wouldn’t ask for that money themselves, but you’d miraculously get a random state audit right after zeroing in on that specifically. Been through probably 10 state audits as well.
Only finding I’ve ever had is a $115 penalty on some casual labor bullshit.