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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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Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?
December 12, 2018 | Paul Kiel , Jesse Eisinger | ProPublicaIf 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.
Tags: Tax Relief