Comment by xmprt
3 days ago
If you're like most Americans and pay taxes on time then there's absolutely no reason to be audited. The two possibilities are:
1. You are taking a lot of special deductions and not providing all the required documentation.
2. Or you're not reporting things accurately because there's some edge case in the tax code that you didn't understand but is easy for the IRS to catch (eg. sales of stock without cost basis reported).
Simplifying the tax code and funding the IRS more solves both of those because then they can focus on the real whales who are abusing the tax code the most.
Most likely 3. He has not gotten audited, he is just a temporarily-embarrassed billionaire, and a bunch of tax cheats convinced him that what would really improve his life is the government raising his taxes, because it isn't collecting theirs.