Yellen Tells IRS Not to Target Middle-Income Americans With Audits as Crackdown Fears Swirl

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not to send tax enforcers to audit households making less than $400,000 per year, after concerns were raised that a massive funding boost to the agency would be used to crack down not on wealthy tax dodgers but to bully middle-income Americans.

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