Posted on 02/21/2017 1:45:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The yearly ritual of submitting tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may not be something most of us look forward to doing, but do we really want the federal government to do it for us?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed legislation that would require the IRS to offer you the convenience of doing your taxes for you. The actual bill would require the IRS to create programs that help taxpayers process and file their federal taxes for free. Sen. Warren says taxpayers spend, on average, 13 hours and about $200 for tax preparation services to file their tax returns. Of course, this is unnecessary (if not misleading), as there are plenty of free services available to most Americans.
Having the IRS take over the process of filing our tax returns is not an idea that will make America great again. Our tax system is based on the concept of voluntary compliance, and hollowing this out by replacing it with a government-run tax preparation system moves the IRS from a tax administration, collection, and enforcement agency on to giving “advice” to the people it’s taking money from -- a clear conflict of interest.
How long before such "advice" becomes mandatory?
Can American taxpayers trust the same government agency that wants as much of their money as possible to also decide which benefits and deductions they will receive? Even if such a system were convenient and free, would we really want it?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hmm...so an organization that has openly and shamelessly suppressed conservative organizations wants to tell me how much I owe the government? What could possibly go wrong?
Abolish the IRS fund fed-gov via Tariffs ONLY like the good olde founders intended!
This is like putting Hunter S. Thompson in charge of the FDA.
It only makes sense to let the IRS do your taxes if they hold you harmless for their mistakes. Otherwise they’ll make lots of mistakes on purpose just so they can fine you.
I’m sure that the prep software will be just as reliable as the HealthCare.gov website.
Putting the fox in charge of the henhouse, what?
Please. go away, psycho woman.
Why doesn’t she introduce a bill that would have the IRS PAY my taxes instead?........................
“Turbotax has done that for years.”
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Yep, and no waiting in government lines.
We’re all hoping that the IRS will be eliminated, and we can send in that postcard tax form with our check. Think of all the money that would save for taxpayers!
How about just making it simple enough that anyone can do it on a post card?
Why not just have them take over vote counting, too? They can get the target numbers directly from their DNC masters and save time. :)
First step towards taking it out of your hands by law. Screw this Marxist phony. The tax code is tyranny.
I wish we would abolish the 16th (and 17th) amendment doing away with the Income Tax, and, replace it with a sales tax (absolutely not a Value Added Tax). The government should have no access to individual’s income amounts, sources, our medical records, our emails, and each and every personal record relating to us.
Frankly, taxes _should_ be automatically doable. If the flat tax were instituted - or at least the myriad of write-offs reduced to almost none, then a simple deduction could be done with every paycheck and all need for returns eliminated... along with thousands of IRS employees and tax attorneys.
But not nearly as things stand today.
Let me guess: Fauxahontas/Dems didn’t get as much donated wampum as they wanted?
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