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solstice@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s super easy to implement, comply, and enforce this. Like almost automated levels of easy. It’s significantly more complex and requires tons of resources and expertise to go after the whales as you say. Resources they just don’t have. Resources that might be wasted if/when it turns out the taxpayer is fully compliant within reason.

It’s not about double standards, it’s purely logistics and resources - at least on the IRS side. Congress is responsible for their funding, or lack thereof, and it doesn’t take long to figure out who’s responsible for the lack of it. So I’d encourage you to focus your ire on the response political party, not the IRS itself.

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somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Passing the buck in my opinion.

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- solstice@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Right, well, anyway, the IRS budget just got a huge increase under the Biden administration new budget. They’re finally hiring a ton of new agents and updating their ancient tech etc. The R party fought tooth and nail against this and there’s an active smear campaign to make the average person afraid they’re coming after you. They manage to reduce the budget increase which is going to reduce their ability to go after the whales, as you were griping about in your original post.
  
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  - somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t see any evidence that they would target the whales given proper funding. Your entire argument hinges on that, and it has no basis.
    
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    solstice@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    irs.gov/…/irs-announces-sweeping-effort-to-restor…
    
    The complex structures and tax issues present in large partnerships require a focused approach to best identify the highest risk issues and apply resources accordingly. In 2021, the IRS launched the first stage of its Large Partnership Compliance (LPC) program with examinations of some of the largest and most complex partnership returns in the filing population. The IRS is now expanding the LPC program to additional large partnerships…By the end of the month, the IRS will open examinations of 75 of the largest partnerships in the U.S. that represent a cross section of industries including hedge funds, real estate investment partnerships, publicly traded partnerships, large law firms and other industries. On average, these partnerships each have more than $10 billion in assets.
    
    Believe me when I tell you a partnership with $10b assets is insane. Auditing that is extremely labor intensive and requires a ton of highly specialized skills and that all requires resources.
    
    There’s really nothing left to argue here so please just take this at face value and move on.
    
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