Top 1 Percent Avoid Paying $163 Billion in Taxes Each Year: Treasury Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The report goes on to argue that in order to collect owed taxes and enforce laws against high earners and corporations, the IRS needs funding to update their technology and to hire agents able to decipher "thousands of pages of sophisticated tax filings.
44% : The Department of Treasury has found that the wealthiest one percent of Americans have avoided paying $163 billion in taxes per year.
39% : Sarin's report includes a table detailing tax data from 2019, which ultimately found that more than $160 billion lost annually is "from taxes that top 1 percent choose not to pay."

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