The IRS Is Using AI to Target the Ultra-Wealthy for Tax Violations::The agency is adding AI tools to identify taxpayers who make $1 million and up, and have more than $250,000 in tax evasion.
They’ve been doing this for decades… AI, machine learning, statistics… the media thinks these words are perfectly interchangeable but AI gets the most clicks
Probably some fodder for the “defund the IRS” club.
They say “ai” but do they just mean software?
All software is now AI. The sensor that tells your fridge to turn off when it’s cold enough? Well that makes a decision of some kind, so AI. The cook timer on your microwave? AI. Your thermostat? Definitely AI.
Old-school AI systems from way back in the day called Expert Systems were just a crapload of IF statements. There’s never been a concrete agreed-upon definition of AI because there’s never been an agreed-upon definition of the word Intelligence.
Probably machine learning models, as usual. Which may or may not be classified as AI.
Either way, useful in statistical problems like this.
Edit: reading the press release, yep, machine learning.
I’ll believe it when i see it. The amount of lost funds from multi millionaires and billionaires would easily pay for the staff required and yet they don’t do it. It has always felt like an intentional act ignoring the wealthy to keep money in the US. Cheat on taxes as long as you keep your business woth us.
Worth noting Biden recently put something like $60-$80 billion into improving the IRS.
Counterpoint: one time he fell over and sometimes he speak bad
Pay more to buy politicians, which are way less than what it costs to pay taxes.
You don’t need AI to find the ultra-wealthy. You need AI to help target the majority.
Macine Learning models trained on capitalist propaganda: “the rich have earned their place and privilege, you should tax the Starbucks workers instead”.
This feels like “the ultra wealthy have already squeezed all the money they can out of the poor and lower middle class, so now they are starting to cannibalize the merely wealthy.”
I know the wealthy don’t see this directly, but if it keeps the machinery of government running so they can continue to benefit and they can mine it out through subsidies and backroom graft.
I am not saying that these millionaires shouldn’t get targeted for not paying their taxes, but the IRS should start at the top and work their way down.
Did you read the article?
The agency clarified that AI will be used to initiate investigations into 75 of the largest U.S. partnerships that document assets that exceed $10 billion on average.
It will reportedly be used to target hedge funds, real estate investment partnerships, and law firms who may have skirted the rules, amounting to roughly 1,600 taxpayers in total who “owe hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.”
1 million plus is not ultra wealthy lmao. Yes I see the second condition
Whatever world you live in where a million dollars income in one tax year is not considered ultra wealthy is dumb
$650,000 a year puts a household into the 1%
They’re not going to spend a dime of it helping anyone. It’s going to go to bombs and drones and domestic surveillance, just like the money they already collect
IRS works for the wealthy. Misleading title!
The IRS is a criminal organization like most government branches
They are gonna go after the ones that dont have tax lawyers on retainer.
This is exactly the type of techno-authoritarianism Orwell warned us about.
That’s true, I remember the part of 1984 where Winston was taken to Room 101 and forced to pay his taxes.
