“For every extra dollar invested in the IRS, the government could be getting $6 back.”

Research from the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) was cited in The Washington Post story “For every extra dollar invested in the IRS, the government could be getting $6 back.” The op-ed piece, written by Catherine Rampell, cites TRAC research on IRS audit rates which found  “the number of IRS revenue agents — the auditors qualified to examine complex returns — has plummeted 43 percent over the past decade.”