IRS budget stretched too thin to track tax evaders

SJ Mercury News ^ | 4/8/03 | AP - Washington

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Salary increases and unexpected expenses absorbed money the Internal Revenue Service had planned to use to track down tax evaders, government investigators said Tuesday.

The General Accounting Office reported that even with budget increases and internal goals making compliance a top priority, the money devoted to collecting unpaid taxes declined from 2000 through 2002.

[NormsRevenge]

..salary increases and unexpected expenses.. more, more, more ..geeesh!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[princess leah]

Start with the CLintons and go down the DNC list and they'll recoup a TON of lost revenues!

[Blue Screen of Death]

Contract out the work to Arthur Anderson.

[Rodney King]

The IRS recently reorganized its enforcement goals to target areas of fraud and abuse, including offshore accounts, low-income tax credit fraud and corporate tax shelters.

All this once again begs for a national sales tax. None of those above three things would be a problem if there was no income tax. The IRS would have barely anything to do as sales taxes are already audited by the states.

[Revolting cat!]

Oh, cry me a river! $280 billion (questionable - since it's hidden and uncollected, how do they known how much?) less to spend various midnight basketball programs!

[eno_]

Yes! Russia HAD to go for a flat tax, since anything else would be a joke in enforcement.

We need low, simple taxes.

NRST would give us back our financial privacy. Something we really need with HomeBoy Security and Freedom Lite being the latest trends.

[Extremist]

Salary increases and unexpected expenses absorbed money the Internal Revenue Service had planned to use to track down tax evaders, government investigators said Tuesday.

How timely! Our CPA called today to see if we wanted to file for our annual EXTENSION.

Both of us being self employed, we get raped by the IRS. We told him to plan on it but on second thought..........

[cavtrooper21]

No money to track evaders, but pleanty of time and money to harass and screw over folks that haven't commited any crimes. Pleanty of time and money to invest in computer systems that don't work worth a damn, Yadda, yadda, yaadda.... (rant is now over)

[the_rightside]

COOL!

[Samizdat]

"We" never seem to have enough money? Amo Houghton. Where's he from? Is HE the IRS? He should wear a garlic necklace and bear a cross whenever he comes in contact with these state sanctioned terrorists. He needs a phone call to swivel his head back onto his neck as it seems to be up his butt at present.

[Light Speed]

Kinda like the citizen who gets audited to the extreme cuzz their name is similar to on the grid marked for doom.

After legal entanglements and volumes of wasted money the reply.
"Investigation now closed"..and of course..no comment concerning error on the IRS divisions part.