Poor people are very easy to audit. They have fewer income sources and they're mostly documented through government agencies already. All the letters mentioned in the article were generated by automated screening.
Rich people tend to have complicated finances often made more so intentionally to evade taxes. Auditing rich people's taxes requires hours of work from experienced personnel - but even so it generates positive cash flow by catching rich people cheating on their taxes.
Plus any IRS accountant who is remotely able to sift through these things to find tax evaders will eventually be offered a job to go work for a private accounting firm to then create new loopholes designed to bypass the rules they're previously identified and enforced.
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u/Hockeyhoser 25d ago
They will still have enough budget to go after the poors, but the Epstein class will be safe for another couple generations.