More Americans expect the IRS to put a greater focus on low- and middle-income households and small businesses than on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations, according to a new survey.
About 36 percent of respondents think the tax collecting agency will use its 87,000 new agents to audit low-income earners, middle-class Americans, and small businesses, a recent Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group poll reveals.
Fewer than one-third (32 percent) say the federal government will audit wealthy Americans and large corporations, while nearly 16 percent believe the agency will employ its thousands of new employees “to target the political opponents of those in power.”…