Katie Porter Instagram – We have a tax gap because the richest Americans don’t pay what they owe while the rest of us do. In a hearing today, I quizzed the IRS Commissioner: how much have audits of millionaire taxpayers declined in the past 10 years? …And he got the right answer! He told me that audits of millionaires have dropped by at least 2/3 in the past decade—more than any of the options on my whiteboard here. If the richest 1% of taxpayers paid what they owe, like the rest of us do, we could give every taxpayer $1000.