enforcement of the very wealthy...yet, now they're now hell-bent on making an example of Hunter Biden...here's an excerpt from the attached link...
Any prosecutions are "Judgement Calls"...the IRS doesn't bring charges against every violation, so when someone has a special interest in the database name of "Biden", it's amazing how quickly a potential case comes to the fore...even if there aren't billions of dollars, or money laundering, or drug trafficking charges involved...and the 'target' paid back those taxes, including interest and penalties.
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling civil divisions referred just 157 tax cases for criminal investigation last fiscal year — out of more than 200 million tax forms filed with the agency annually, according to new federal data. IRS criminal investigators accepted just 104 of such cases for further action in 2023, the fewest in the 10 years of data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The IRS’s civil divisions, which comprise the vast majority of the agency’s workforce, are supposed to flag egregious tax cases for potential prosecution from the volumes of returns they process and audit. These referrals are often associated with large dollar figures and wealthier taxpayers, who in recent years have seen weak enforcement from the depleted tax agency.
The new data shows a 10-year plummet in the number of possible tax crimes identified by civil investigators. Last year’s referrals represent a 58% drop from a decade prior, when agents referred 377 tax cases.
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Again, Hunter Biden is a GOP tool in an attempt to inflict damage on his father...he paid back what he owed...that should have been the end of it.
Link: https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/03/new-data-shows-irss-10-year-struggle-to-investigate-tax-crimes/