"Today, a new analysis by the US Treasury Department showed that 1% of the richest Americans evade taxes in the amount of $ 163 billion a year," the US administration quoted TASS as saying.
As Natasha Sarin, Deputy Assistant to the Minister of Finance for Economic Policy, noted, the tax gap, that is, the difference between the amount of taxes received and the expected volume, is about $ 600 billion a year.
She suggested that in this way, the country's budget would lose about $ 7 trillion over the course of a decade, if the situation does not change.
According to her estimates, the amount of lost income is "equal to 3% of GDP, or the entire volume of income taxes paid by 90% of taxpayers with the lowest income."