WASHINGTON —
"We have taken swift initial action to dramatically reduce the number of those audits. We have also made changes to the selection criteria for those audits,” IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said., has testified before Congress about the issue and last September he wrote to the Senate Finance Committee that the IRS would make changes.
He added: “There is no new wave of audits coming for middle and low income" taxpayers —"that is not in our plans in any way shape or form." Ensuring that people pay their taxes is one of the tax collection agency’s biggest challenges. The audit rate of millionaires fell by more than 70% from 2010 to 2019 and the rate on large corporations dropped by more than 50%.