> letting the poor commit too much fraud > Cutting the IRS’s budget didn’t make sense to him. It was one of the few areas of government that had a positive ret

> letting the poor commit too much fraud > Cutting the IRS’s budget didn’t make sense to him. It was one of the few areas of government that had a positive return on investment > Since the IRS-reform bill in 1998, the agency is prohibited from evaluating agents based on how much money they bring in. Instead, they are evaluated on how efficiently they open and close audits I find these pretty interesting. It does feel a little fishy, given the IRS can actually be a revenue generating center for the government. Which would be very different if it was costing more then it brought in.