A co-author of the study, Daniel E. Ho, is a law professor and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He told BET.com that while the paper doesn’t offer any advice to taxpayers it’s not without helpful information to the IRS, “We show that there is a lot the IRS can do to mitigate these disparities. Our evidence shows that treating adjustments from EITC the same as other forms of tax evasion and focusing on high dollar claims would make a big difference.”