IRS workers goals will largely be around statutory/policy compliance rather than maximization. And government “incentives” are different from usual — if they re

IRS workers goals will largely be around statutory/policy compliance rather than maximization. And government “incentives” are different from usual — if they really want more money they can pass different laws. Where there’s a bone to pick with IRS behavior, the cause is the people who write the laws, congress. Their incentives are different too. And it turns out if you want to spread anti-tax sentiment, one thing you might do is cooperate with the lobby for making filing itself a difficult and danger-fraught process.