88% of households make under $200k
So 63% of new audits cover 88% of households, and 37% of new audits cover 12% of households.
That means
Households making $200k+ are ~4.3X more likely to be audited than households making <$200k
But that doesn't have the shock value and go viral like the OP tweet.
I absolutely hate how much we blatantly manipulate statistics to fit a narrative
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-audit-eitc-five-times-as-likely-to-get-audited/
The real narrative is actually pretty sad
This article is from before the changes.
Yes, but everyone was pretending that auditing the poor is some conspiracy theory and the fact is the IRS mostly audits the poor because it's easier
The guy I responded to straight up said saying the IRS mostly audits the poor is made up statistics to fit a narrative.