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.