The IRS pursues upper-middle-class taxpayers with real estate and small businesses because they're profitable targets who can't afford to fight back. Going after the ultra wealthy is too hard, so the agency avoids them.
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I heard the IRS specifically targets people who are kind of in lower end of upper class or like upper middle class. They're in that point where they don't have endless money to just hire attorneys and accountants to like fight the irs. But there's enough money there that the IRS can actually make a decent bag. Like, a lot of people like to think, like, oh, it's like the IRS and rich people are just battling it out. But the IRS has actually decided like, it's too hard going after the ultra wealthy. So we'll go after kind of the next couple rungs down. The people with, you know, some real estate or a couple million dollar net worth, they've got a business or small business or something like that.