[net.taxes] IRS budget

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.
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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.
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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.



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