<story><title>I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>therein</author><text>I remember reading a while ago that every $1 that goes into IRS to fund tax fraud cases yielded $1.2 in return. When that&amp;#x27;s the case, it seems like a no-brainer that it should be well-funded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdminhbg</author><text>The &lt;i&gt;average&lt;/i&gt; $1 yielded $1.20, not &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; $1. The marginal rate of return surely goes down as you spend more, otherwise you could spend $10 trillion dollars and get $2 trillion for free. What would be interesting is what the marginal $1 spent yields.</text></comment>
<story><title>I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>therein</author><text>I remember reading a while ago that every $1 that goes into IRS to fund tax fraud cases yielded $1.2 in return. When that&amp;#x27;s the case, it seems like a no-brainer that it should be well-funded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grapehut</author><text>That is ignoring the enormous externalized costs. I have known business to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in professional services when being investigated that have done absolutely nothing wrong.</text></comment>