lazarus@sunybcs.UUCP (Daniel G. Winkowski) (07/09/86)
An editorial, "Don't Tempt the IRS Into Bounty Hunting", by David Keating (July 8th) in the Wall Street Journal may be of interest to this discussion. Briefly, it states that the Senate's tax-reform bill provides for the removal of the IRS budget from the appropriations process. Instead the IRS budget would be bassed on a commission of the penalties and interest it collects from taxpayers, thereby creating an incentive to assess penalties. A cap on the commissions would be imposed to limit spending on what the IRS collects. -------------- Dan Winkowski @ SUNY Buffalo Computer Science (716-636-2193) UUCP: ..![bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath]!sunybcs!lazarus CSNET: lazarus@Buffalo.CSNET ARPA: lazarus%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY [=] Today we live in the future, Tomorrow we'll live for the moment, But, pray we never live in the past.
ekwok@mipos3.UUCP (Edward C. Kwok) (07/11/86)
In article <345@sunybcs.UUCP> lazarus@gort.UUCP (Daniel G. Winkowski) writes: > >An editorial, "Don't Tempt the IRS Into Bounty Hunting", by David Keating >(July 8th) in the Wall Street Journal may be of interest to this discussion. > >Briefly, it states that the Senate's tax-reform bill provides for the removal >of the IRS budget from the appropriations process. Instead the IRS budget would >be bassed on a commission of the penalties and interest it collects from >taxpayers, thereby creating an incentive to assess penalties. A cap on the >commissions would be imposed to limit spending on what the IRS collects. >-------------- This is very scary. Imagine the IRS does the same to its agents - your salary is a percentage of your take. It may make it into a pyramid scheme with hundreds of over-zealous agents bugging your phones or use medieval methods of torture. Somebody should be doing some heavyweight lobbying to stop these guys. --