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Senior reporter and editor at ProPublica.
Links: @eisingerj | (Current as of: December 13, 2018)
ProPublica
December 12, 2018
If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you’re more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them.
Senior reporter and editor at ProPublica.
Links: @eisingerj | (Current as of: December 13, 2018)
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News StoryWho’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?
Paul Kiel, Jesse EisingerProPublica
December 12, 2018
If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you’re more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them.
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