IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelligence tools, the agency has new means of targeting wealthy people who have “cut corners” on their taxes.

“If you pay your taxes on time it should be particularly frustrating when you see that wealthy filers are not,” Werfel told reporters in a call previewing the announcement. He said 1,600 millionaires who owe at least $250,000 each in back taxes and 75 large business partnerships that have assets of roughly $10 billion on average are targeted for the new “compliance efforts.”

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    1 year ago

    Q:What’s the difference between someone who has 1 million dollars and someone who has 1 billion dollars?

    A:Roughly a billion dollars.

    Really, it’s practically the same at 10M.

    A billion is just so fucking much more that our brains have a hard time even conceptualizing it.