{"id":2251,"date":"2006-03-28T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2006-03-28T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T18:17:11","slug":"our_tax_system_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Our Tax System: Higher Audit Rates for Lower Income Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2006\/03\/trac_reports_hi.html\">Paul Caron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.syr.edu\/tracirs\/index.html\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse<\/a> (TRAC) of Syracuse University <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.syr.edu\/tracirs\/latest\/current\/\">reports&nbsp; today<\/a> that only 30 of the nation&#8217;s 180,000 plus millionaires were subject to face-to-face audits in FY 2005. When only traditional face-to-face audits are considered, those reporting less than $25,000 in total positive income were six times more likely to be audited than all those reporting $200,000 or more in income. IRS continues to withhold from TRAC statistical data it has made public in the past that might explain the aberration.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Caron: The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University reports&nbsp; today that only 30 of the nation&#8217;s 180,000 plus millionaires were subject to face-to-face audits in FY 2005. When only traditional face-to-face audits are considered, those reporting less than $25,000 in total positive income were six times more likely to be audited than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}