It looks obvious

“Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” — Albert Einstein

The wrong approach

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In an article about the Tax Gap the WSJ notes that:

Nina Olson, the IRS’s taxpayer advocate, told Congress last year that IRS auditors have found that an estimated 94% of noncompliance is the result of honest mistakes by tax filers who simply don’t understand the 17,000-page beast of a tax code.

But if you thinks that the Congress will simplify the tax code, and by product will increase the tax collected, you should think again:

One obvious answer would be to simplify the code (more on that later). But this requires political will, so Congress naturally prefers the easier route of ratcheting up taxpayer regulation and enforcement.

Why am I not surprised?

 

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Written by Rogel

January 30th, 2007 at 11:09 am


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