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I'd be more receptive to this argument if the IRS was giving normal taxpayers some sort of easy file card. Since when is the IRS supposed to care what taxpayers
by pnutjam 7y ago
I'd be more receptive to this argument if the IRS was giving normal taxpayers some sort of easy file card. Since when is the IRS supposed to care what taxpayers pay to comply?
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoSo we shouldn't care about overhead costs imposed on taxpayers because we don't care about overhead costs imposed on taxpayers? If you're not aware, the reason we don't have "some sort of easy file card" isn't any choice by the IRS, it's a choice by Congress at the behest of the tax preparation industry.
- pnutjam 7y agoYes, and Congress is also the one who makes decisions about funding audits, no?
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoI still don't understand what your point is. The reason they don't want easy file cards is that corruption is most common when there is a centralized benefit and decentralized cost, because then the kleptocrats will spend more resources to make things that way than the average person will to prevent it. For audits it's the opposite, because for most people there is negligible benefit but it's a major cost to innocent people who are subject to an audit, so you get real opposition to them. That's the politics of it, but what does that have anything to do with what the best policy is?