When you have audit rates that are so much higher for the person of modest means than they are for wealthy, that does not pass the smell test in terms of fairness.
Ron Wyden: “When you have audit rates that are so much higher for the person of modest means than they are for wealthy, that does…”
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Wyden criticizes the disparity in audit rates between wealthy individuals and those with modest means.
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