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The hidden history of race and the tax code
This past January, researchers uncovered that Black taxpayers are three to five times as likely to be audited as everyone else. One likely reason for this is that the IRS disproportionately audits lower-income earners who claim a tax benefit called the earned income tax credit. And this, says law professor Dorthy Brown, is just one example of the many ways that race is woven through our tax system, its history, and its enforcement.
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