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The IRS is watching you.

Most taxpayers think that technology is available to help understand the tax code and make compliance with their tax obligations a little easier.  And they would be correct.  The IRS, however, has to think about "non-filers", those people or businesses that choose not to comply with their tax obligations.  Artificial intelligence helps auditors target those reluctant taxpayers in the constant game of "cat-and-mouse" with enforcement individuals.

The Internal Revenue Service is designing machine-built graphs to plot the relationships among participants in business deals, giving auditors a new tool to analyze transactions and detect tax avoidance. The agency is using artificial intelligence to study notes that agency employees take when fielding questions from taxpayers and testing which combinations of formal notices and contacts are most likely to get a taxpayer who owes money to send a check.