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Tax Day 2025

Published: 2025-03-31 16:15:30 5 min read
Tax Day 2025 News Articles - Isaac Gray

Tax Day, the annual deadline for filing income tax returns in the United States, has long been a source of public frustration.

Yet, Tax Day 2025 arrives amid unprecedented economic turbulence soaring inflation, widening wealth inequality, and a tax code increasingly skewed toward the ultra-wealthy.

While the IRS has deployed new AI-driven enforcement tools, critics argue these measures disproportionately burden working-class taxpayers while failing to curb corporate tax avoidance.

This investigative piece examines the systemic inequities, technological disruptions, and political fissures defining Tax Day 2025.

Despite promises of modernization, Tax Day 2025 exposes deep flaws in the U.

S.

tax system: automation widens the audit gap between rich and poor, corporate loopholes persist, and public trust in the IRS erodes further raising urgent questions about fairness, transparency, and the future of fiscal policy.

The IRS’s expanded use of artificial intelligence in tax enforcement, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, was touted as a way to close the tax gap (the difference between taxes owed and collected).

However, a 2024 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that AI audits disproportionately target Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) claimants typically low-income families while high-net-worth individuals evade scrutiny.

For example, IRS data reveals that taxpayers earning under $50,000 faced audit rates than those earning over $500,000 in 2024.

This disparity stems from AI systems flagging suspicious deductions (e.

g.

, childcare expenses) more aggressively than complex offshore trusts.

Legal scholar Dorothy Brown (Georgetown Law) argues this reflects algorithms trained on historical audit patterns that inherently favor wealthy filers with armies of accountants.

While ordinary Americans navigate AI audits, corporate tax avoidance continues unabated.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 slashed corporate rates but failed to eliminate offshore profit-shifting.

A 2025 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) found that in 2024, exploiting deductions for stock buybacks and research credits.

Tech giants like Amazon and Meta have perfected the Double Irish loophole (rerouting profits through subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions).

Despite G20 pledges to implement a, enforcement remains patchy.

Economist Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley) notes that without multilateral cooperation, U.

S.

reforms are like plugging one leak in a sinking ship.

Public confidence in the IRS sits at (Pew Research, 2025), reflecting partisan divides.

Conservatives decry the agency’s expanded funding as government overreach, while progressives demand tougher enforcement on the top 1%.

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The GOP’s proposed Flat Tax Act (a 15% single-rate system) would exacerbate inequality, argues the Tax Policy Center, saving the wealthy $2 trillion while raising taxes for 40% of middle-class households.

Meanwhile, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel faces bipartisan backlash: Republicans accuse him of harassing small businesses, and Democrats criticize slow progress on closing carried-interest loopholes for private equity.

Tax Day 2025 lays bare a system in crisis.

AI audits entrench inequality, corporations exploit legalized loopholes, and political gridlock stifles reform.

Without structural changes such as repealing the cap on IRS funding, mandating country-by-country corporate disclosures, and curbing algorithmic bias the social contract underpinning taxation risks collapse.

As economist Joseph Stiglitz warns, When citizens believe the game is rigged, voluntary compliance evaporates.

The stakes extend beyond revenue: Tax Day is now a litmus test for democracy itself.

- GAO (2024).

- ITEP (2025).

- Zucman, G.

(2023).

UC Press.

- Pew Research (2025).

- Brown, D.

(2024).

Georgetown Law Journal.