BiasHigh
IRS Audited Black Taxpayers More Frequently Reportedly Due to Algorithm
- Occurred
- Jul 18, 2008
- Published
- Jan 30, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The IRS was auditing Black taxpayers more frequently than other groups allegedly due to the design of their algorithms, focusing on easier-to-conduct audits which inadvertently correlated with the group's pattern of tax filing errors.
Developers
- Internal Revenue Service
Deployers
- Internal Revenue Service
Harmed parties
- Black taxpayers
- Black people
- Taxpayers
- Taxpayers in the United States
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Algorithmic discrimination against Black taxpayers constitutes a significant civil rights and fairness issue.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8