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Tell the IRS to Stop Targeting People with Low Incomes for Audits
  1. Signatures
    543 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. United States Treasury Secretary (Timothy Geithner)
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    Change.org
About this Petition Petition Letter

The IRS has been targeting people for audits simply because they don’t make enough money.

When people report incomes below the poverty line, the IRS has been using that as an excuse to conduct audits because the government claims that those people “can’t get by” with such low incomes.

Further, the IRS is refusing to allow some of these people with low incomes to claim children as dependents after the auditing process because, the IRS reasons, if they don’t make enough money to “get by” in a given city then there is no way they could be providing for a dependent child.

These policies are so insensitive to the reality of poverty in the United States. Millions of people with low incomes live in cities alongside much wealthier residents and provide for dependent children. It is outrageous that the IRS would specifically target people simply for not making enough money.

Send a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today and tell him to stop targeting people for tax audits simply because they don’t make enough money.

Recent Signatures

Stop Targeting People with Low Incomes for Audits

Dear Secretary Geithner,

I am writing because I am appalled to learn that the IRS is targeting people for audits simply because they do not make enough money.

By specifically targeting low income taxpayers you not only create an additional burden on those who can least afford it, you show a tremendous lack of understanding regarding the realities of poverty in the United States. To say that someone simply can’t afford to live in a particular city because their income is too low, or worse to say that they can’t be caring for a dependent child, is to deny some of the most common realities for millions of people in this country.

Please, stop specifically targeting people with low incomes for audits.

Thank you,

[Your name]

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