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So how did they arrive at 53.5 from 54 if it is one way or another for them? You are talking about $/mile. Moving that figure up or down a penny quickly approa

So how did they arrive at 53.5 from 54 if it is one way or another for them? You are talking about $/mile. Moving that figure up or down a penny quickly approaches a billion on the macro scale and their overarching incentive is keeping it down. I mean, I will take this figure any day over someone higher up the thread essentially arguing it's much less because all Uber drivers have cars anyway that they finance through (?) so accounting it towards the Uber income doesn't make sense (??).

patio11 9y ago
This is a subtle and difficult thing, but I promise you it is true: the IRS is not primarily scored on revenue generation. Their incentives are (approximately) hire more IRSians, minimize complaints to Congress regarding the tax code, minimize complaints to Congress regarding the IRS specifically, efficiently administer taxes, and generate revenue, in order. There are a lot of changes that are within the IRS' authority to make which would be net-positive from a tax collection perspective and which it would not do and, if it did, would be undone from above. One is "radically increase the number of audits administered."