The Inner Income Service stated Thursday that it’s focusing on high-income taxpayers who’ve didn’t file federal earnings tax returns in additional than 125,000 cases since 2017.

Even with a conservative estimate, the IRS stated that it believes lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} of unpaid taxes are concerned in these circumstances.

The IRS is utilizing funds supplied by the Inflation Discount Act to rejuvenate IRS’ nonfiler program, which the company says has “solely run sporadically since 2016 as a consequence of extreme price range and employees limitations that didn’t permit these circumstances to be labored.”

This week, the IRS stated that it is going to be sending “compliance alert” letters to greater than 25,000 nonfilers with greater than $1 million in earnings, and over 100,000 to folks with incomes between $400,000 and $1 million between tax years 2017 and 2021.

These compliance alerts are for failure to file a tax return, formally often called the CP-59 Discover.

“About 20,000 to 40,000 letters will exit every week, starting with the filers within the highest-income classes,” the IRS stated.

The IRS famous that a few of these nonfilers have a number of years included within the case rely so the variety of taxpayers receiving letters might be smaller than the precise variety of notices going out.

“These are all circumstances the place IRS has acquired third-party data — akin to by means of Kinds W-2 and 1099s — indicating these folks acquired earnings in these ranges however didn’t file a tax return,” the company acknowledged.

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel stated Thursday in a statemnet that “right now of yr when tens of millions of hard-working individuals are doing the precise factor paying their taxes, we can’t tolerate these with larger incomes failing to do a primary civic obligation of submitting a tax return.”