IRS Five Times More Likely to Audit Low-Income Filers Than All Others, Including Top 1 Percent: Watchdog

A copy of an IRS 1040 tax form is seen at an H&R Block office in Miami, Fla., on Dec. 22, 2017. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Internal Revenue Service officials audit returns of taxpayers making $25,000 or less at a much higher rate than for all other income earners, including those in the top 1 percent who President Joe Biden claims pay nothing, according to a nonprofit government watchdog.

“So far, it has completed 132,922 audits of these low-income wage earners with less than $25,000 in total gross receipts. This is up from 105,978 audits IRS had completed a year ago at the end of February 2021,” the Syracuse University-based Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reports.