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Claim Text: But most of the gap comes from people who file a tax return but do not report all of their income to the I.R.S., intentionally or not.
Simplified Text: The majority of the IRS tax gap results from individuals underreporting their income on filed tax returns.
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Claim Maker: The author
Context Type: News Article
Context Details: { "concept": "tax gap" }
Subject Tags: Government Taxes IRS
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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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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

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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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Simplified: The IRS's 2022 tax gap estimate is based on noncompliance rates from tax filings between 2014 and 2016.

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