Incident 461: IRS Audited Black Taxpayers More Frequently Reportedly Due to Algorithm
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Government agencies around the world use data-driven algorithms to allocate enforcement resources. Even when such algorithms are formally neutral with respect to protected characteristics like race, there is widespread concern that they can…
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WASHINGTON — Black taxpayers are at least three times as likely to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service as other taxpayers, even after accounting for the differences in the types of returns each group is most likely to file, a team of…
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A new report published Monday found that the IRS audits Black taxpayers at a significantly higher rate than non-Black taxpayers.
The paper, published by Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, said that despite the IRS’s “race-bl…
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Researchers have long wondered if the IRS uses its audit powers equitably. And now we have learned that it does not.
Black taxpayers receive IRS audit notices at least 2.9 times (and perhaps as much as 4.7 times) more often than non-Black t…
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