Death, Taxes, and Turduckens Quotes

“The top one percent dodge taxes at three times the rate of taxpayers in the bottom half of the income scale, yet audits of the wealthiest have plummeted over the last decade. In 2023, fewer than one in six convictions involved more than $1.5 million.”
― Jens Kurt Heycke, Death, Taxes, and Turduckens: Unraveling History’s Biggest Tax Heist And the Broken System That Enabled It

“In 2023, only 363 individuals were convicted of tax fraud. Just over half received prison time, with an average sentence of only 16 months....Tax fraud prosecutions haven’t just declined, they’ve crashed, down nearly 50 percent from 2014 to 2023. That means nearly half a trillion dollars vanishes every year, and almost no one is held accountable.”
― Jens Kurt Heycke, Death, Taxes, and Turduckens: Unraveling History’s Biggest Tax Heist And the Broken System That Enabled It