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Claim Text: An inspector general report last month found that revenue collected from audits dropped by more than a third last fiscal year, a sign that the tax gap could be growing under Mr. Trump.
Simplified Text: An inspector general report found that revenue from IRS audits dropped by more than a third in the last fiscal year.
Confidence Score: 1.000
Claim Maker: Inspector General
Context Type: News Article
Context Details: { "statistic": "revenue from audits dropped by more than a third", "timeframe": "last fiscal year", "source_document": "Inspector General report" }
Subject Tags: Government Statistics Taxation
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Created: September 18, 2026 at 1:17 AM (3 weeks ago)
Last Updated: September 18, 2026 at 1:17 AM (3 weeks ago)

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Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much.

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https://nytimes.com/2026/09/16/business/trump-irs-tax-gap.html

The Trump administration has delayed the publication of the annual IRS estimate of unpaid taxes, making it difficult to assess the fiscal cost of the decline in the agency's ability to audit the rich. This delay is part of a broader pattern of the administration stopping or changing federal data measurements.

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Mr. Bisignano, in a statement, said revenue from tax enforcement was increasing this year and did not depend on the number of auditors. 1.000

Simplified: IRS leader Frank Bisignano stated that tax enforcement revenue is increasing this year and does not depend on the number of auditors.

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Simplified: The IRS has found that income with third-party verification is rarely underreported, while income without it often goes unreported.

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To do so, the I.R.S. conducts a statistical sample of intensive audits, and then extrapolates the rates of noncompliance it finds to the taxpayer population more broadly. 1.000

Simplified: The IRS estimates the tax gap by extrapolating noncompliance rates from a statistical sample of intensive audits to the general taxpayer population.

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In its most recent projection, released in October 2024, the I.R.S. estimated that roughly $700 billion in owed taxes went uncollected in 2022, though the agency said it expected that roughly $90 bill... 1.000

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Simplified: The IRS tax gap estimate for 2023, which was scheduled for publication last fall, has not been released.

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