This is quite true, even excluding service workers. Every tax season I have conversations with bright, well-to-do, college-educated people who seem to live in terminal fear of the IRS. They're absolutely terrified that if they get one tiny thing wrong during the tax filing process, they will immediately be arrested and shipped off to prison. So they always pay someone to file their taxes, even if they're simple. It's mind-boggling.
The irony is that -- as you said -- the IRS hits people of modest income harder, because the IRS doesn't have the resources to take on many battles with wealthy people who can afford lawyers. This means the IRS mostly goes after easy targets who won't fight back. Yet another tax on being poor.
The irony is that -- as you said -- the IRS hits people of modest income harder, because the IRS doesn't have the resources to take on many battles with wealthy people who can afford lawyers. This means the IRS mostly goes after easy targets who won't fight back. Yet another tax on being poor.