The article presents an interesting case study, but it's unclear how generalizable it is from a single example. One idea the author suggests is that tax agenci

The article presents an interesting case study, but it's unclear how generalizable it is from a single example. One idea the author suggests is that tax agencies will grow to take up roughly 1 percent because 1 percent of the budget is so negligible. The U.S. provides an interesting contrast. In 1955, the IRS was 0.08 percent of GDP [0] [2]. In 2008, it was 0.093 percent of GDP [0] [1]. So it's much lower, but also has remained fairly steady between 1955 and 2008. Looking ahead, the new IRS budget is around $20 billion, which is 0.072 percent of GDP [0]. To pick another example, the Canadian Revenue Service was about 0.2 percent of GDP in 2018 [3] [4]. One other assumption is that the Australian Tax Office does the same, at least when normalized to GDP. I'm not sure that's true, but investigating that would take more time. [0] https://taxfoundation.org/blog/irs-budget-increase-technology/ https://taxfoundation.org/blog/irs-budget-increase-technolog... [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGDP https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGDP [2] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/budget-united-states-government-54/fiscal-year-ending-june-30-1957-19010 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/budget-united-states-gov... See page 1000