If the auditing frequency is already available as published data, so should be the prosecution rate and financial recovery rate.
As long as the projected marginal recovery of (rightful) taxes exceeds the cost of IRS staff expansion, im all for it.
(Dont care if the extra dollar comes from a thousandaire or a millionaire, if its rightfully owed, i wont judge based on class-ideology)
Agreed that the root cause is the excessive tax codes that caused complexity and allows for creative accounting. FYI in many countries, the taxes are simple enough that tax filing is optional for most earners — the withholding at source is simple enough that the liability ends up flat at year end for people. As far as I know, its the US accounting industry that lobbied strongly against simplification of tax laws and processes