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going after the tax gap. how is it doing that so when people don t get audited, they tend to start to cut corners. i m not saying they re tax evaders, but i think you can call them tax avoiders not necessarily paying every penny of tax that, under the rules, they should pay there have been estimates done on this. treasury did an estimate in 2016 using numbers from 2014 to 2016. what they found was that americans paid an average each of those years of $2.8 trillion in individual income taxes the irs collected $68 billion through its audit process and getting people to pay what they owe. there s another $428 billion a year that the irs was not collecting because it didn t have the staff, basically, to enforce its rules. as that happens, here s what the congressional budget office thinks is going to happen. the pink down here is the

Tax gapTax evaders12 8 trillion8 trillionIncome taxesAudit process28 billion8 billion68 billion428 billionCongressional budget office