I'm okay with mid value targets too. A lot of small business owners are tax cheating bastards as well as fortune 500 companies.

It's kind of amazing how upfront they are about it

Daily crime journal wow

Yeah I’m hoping they snowball this money into pursuing others, and funding the ability to enforce these large bill dodges

For-profit framing of public services is indeed a problem, as we can see with prisons too. Probably, it's better to call their avoided taxes stolen money, money stolen from regular citizen, and the return on them as a punishment for theft. And then point out how many investments in public infrastructure and services could've been done for these money: in miles of roads not layed, in new schools not built, - and that's the same weight goes onto shoulders of regular Joes who millionaires stole them from. And insist that this kind of theft should be punished, for if regular americans are obligated to suffer the tax filling and paying process, it's unfair these chuds with hired accountants and lawyers don't.

But I also get why the IRS doesn't want to walk up to Congress right now, hat in hand, and say "We spent more money prosecuting them than we gained" or anything close to that, and give the GOP ammo for defunding them again.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037

Actual outlays for enforcement. Outlays for enforcement activities in 2023 were less than projected. Most of the expenditures from the enforcement account stem from labor costs, and through 2023, the IRS hired fewer revenue agents (the enforcement staff who handle complex audits) than it had planned. That shortfall suggests that the IRS has encountered greater difficulty in hiring auditors than it anticipated. CBO expects that the IRS will be able to use all the mandatory funding that it designated for hiring in later years, but because of the delays in hiring and training new auditors, revenue collections from enforcement activities are smaller in CBO’s February 2024 projections than they were in its previous projections.

https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/criminal-investigation-press-releases#collapseCollapsible1725660483068

This helps thanks lol

Literally has nothing to do with Biden for me. I like numbers and it was something neat to compare against. Not everything is about presidential politics for everyone.