Pay Taxes on Big Island - Get Audited

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Residents of the Big Island have a statistically higher chance for a tax audit, because lower income people are more likely to claim the earned income credit. If you include the earned income credit on your tax form, make certain you qualify. The IRS would rather go after you, Puna five figure thousandaires, than check for errors by phony millionaires who don’t pay taxes because that’s not at all suspicious:

Analysis: If you live on the Big Island, you’re more likely to get audited by the IRS.
Part of the disparity, experts say, is linked to a push to identify incorrect payments of the earned income tax credit, which poor families are eligible for.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/04/02/...ed-by-irs/

[Obie]

Moral of the story, don't cheat on the earned income tax credit !

[kalakoa]

don't cheat on the earned income tax credit

A more cynical moral: don't be poor enough that the EIC is meaningful.

Audit rate is lower on Kauai -- more poverty, but apparently fewer EIC claims, almost as if their economy is further underground, beyond the disclosure of IRS paperwork.

[randomq]

Obey.