From The New York Times:
...the I.R.S. lets hundreds of billions of dollars slip through its fingers each year. This “tax gap” — recent estimates pegged it at $381 billion a year between 2011 and 2013 — comes from people and businesses that under-report their income, pay less than what they owe or owe taxes but simply don’t file a return.
Most of the gap is owed by the wealthy, who can pay accountants to mask their income and lawyers to protect them if the taxman comes knocking.
As a taxpayer, I find this personally offensive. As a citizen
it’s offensive and unfair, not just to those who pay the correct taxes but to
citizens who benefit from those taxes. That would be all of us. But the IRS
needs money to enforce the tax rules. For the last ten years they have
requested more funding and congress won’t give it to them. And this is one of
the few expenditures that would actually make money for the government.
Consider reading this article and writing your legislatures. Ask them to fund
the IRS.
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