The Internal Revenue Service's preference for handling millionaires and billionaires with kid gloves has been known and documented for years.
But there's another side of the coin: Where does the IRS really focus its enforcement firepower? On the poorest households in America.
The relevant statistics come to us via TRAC, a nonprofit research data center at Syracuse University. TRAC recently mined IRS statistics and determined that the agency audits households with less than $25,000 in income at a rate five times higher than anyone else.
