It was a promise repeated many times by President Joe Biden’s administration: The IRS would conduct more audits of wealthy Americans, but audit rates would not rise for households earning less than $400,000 per year.

Biden and the Democrats made that pledge as they bolstered funding for the IRS, hoping that more enforcement aimed at wealthy tax evaders would generate revenue to pay for climate and health care programs.

Republican lawmakers warned that more money for the IRS would lead to more audits across the board, and that middle-class taxpayers would be targeted.

But new data released by the IRS last week suggests that the agency upheld Biden’s promise in 2024. With an audit rate of 0.8%, people making over $500,000 on their latest return were more than twice as likely to be audited

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