Laura Saunders
speaker
5,937 appearances
109 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Nov 2024
Laura Saunders’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Only a few special agents are allowed to carry guns.
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It's about 2,100 agents now, and they may hire a few hundred more, but that will still be less than the IRS had in the mid-'90s.
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At that point, it was 3,500.
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Other people have said it will allow the IRS—
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to come after middle-class taxpayers who made a mistake on their tax returns.
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The Treasury disputes this intensely.
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It says that no American earning less than $400,000 a year will stand a greater chance of audit.
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New audits, when they come, will not come quickly.
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The IRS has to hire and staff up.
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It has to train people.
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It's a tight labor market, and it can take three to five years for a top auditor to be fully trained and productive.
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I think that the hope by Treasury is that they will also use big data and artificial intelligence to figure out who is likely not to be reporting income.
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I talked to some tax professionals about what would the IRS look for?
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Well, it might look at capital gain transactions to look at the basis.
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It would look at collectibles.
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They'll be looking at places where income is not reported by third parties like employers and banks.
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They might look at foreign transactions.
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And they will certainly look at cryptocurrency.
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The statute of limitations is three years for smaller issues.
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And
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