Why the IRS audits the poor

The IRS audits the working poor at about the same rate it does the wealthiest 1 percent, said Paul Kiel in ProPublica.org, but after lawmakers confronted IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig about the focus on low-income taxpayers, the agency said “it can’t change anything unless it is given more money.” Last year, 380,000 audits, or 39 percent of the total,