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DO WE NEED AN IRS?: Abolishing the IRS Is a Fantasy |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Joe Cobb |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,478 Words, 8,395 Characters |
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More than 100 Republicans th the House of Representatives have signed a pledge to abolish the Internal Revenue Service as we know it.” Since the vast majority of taxpayers look upon the tax man as some kind of predator, this slogan has a nice ring—until you ask what “as we know it” might mean.
Does this political slogan mean to suggest the tax agency will change its behavior to act less like the stern highway patrolman who arrests speeding drivers and more like the friendly tow truck driver who fixes flat tires and dead batteries?
It seems more likely the words abolish the IRS as we know it actually mean only changing the name of the government agency, or taking enough Americans off the tax rolls to make them forget it exists. No congressman has proposed abolishing tax collectio...
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...ions will only shift the auditors’ focus.
As more and more Americans become self-empIoyed or work from their homes, as recent trends indicate, the shift in emphasis from Form 1040 due on April 15 to the business tax return, which is often due several times each year, will hardly make a difference. As long as some tax bureaucrat somewhere believes you owe him money, you will live in fear.
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