Only if he has no problems being a Government paid thief.
Certainly.
Having a pro-business conservative audit businesses is better than having a typical leftist drone do it. There is an element of leeway in legal interpretation, so he can bring an element of simple human kindness and mercy to the process. Opportunities are very limited right now, as your friend has discovered. He should take it.
Does he/she want any friends?
So, in a similar vein, who do you think John Q Taxpayer who is undergoing an audit would rather deal with: someone seeking to squeeze them for every last $$$ in late fees, penalties, and interest, or someone who realize that we are all human, we sometimes make mistakes, and people should have a chance to rectify them without penalty?
Having said that, tax cheats like former Senator Daschle need to be penalized, but that's a whole other issue...
The answer is of course, yes.
The only question for him is if he can tolerate anti-business liberals he will undoubtedly be working with. (Though the IRS computer people I’ve met seemed quite reasonable)
If you are not in the right victim group you won’t get the job.
It is important to direct anger towards the appropriate target - Congress, not the IRS.
Good question.
Can a Christian vote at all? Both parties are pro-abortion and both advocate confiscating private property by means of deadly force if necessary.
It’s a tough call to make.
Absolutely. There is a distinct difference in liking a law/policy and enforcing a law or policy. As an auditor, your job is to enforce the law as written, not pass judgment on whether the law is written correctly.
The same policy goes for attorneys, federal agents, police officers, military officials, or anyone else charged with law enforcement. You may work internally to have policies changed, etc ... but it is not necessarily morally wrong to enforcing a law you wouldn’t have voted to pass.
There are, of course, limits to that ... i.e. Nuremburg. But, tax policy is not comparable to internment and extermination of a race.
SnakeDoc
For me, I want all the good people “inside” that we can get.
For instance; I’ve told soldiers thinking about getting out because of their new CIC to *please* stay in. One day *I* may be at the wrong end of a fire hose and if that day comes, I want *them* holding the hose.
Same thing for an auditor.
After a couple of years, he can do what many good Americans do when they’ve been embedded in the swamp for awhile: Turn into whistle blowers. Tell the truth to the American people.
There ARE good folks who work for the IRS.
When I was treasurer for the local Society of Manufacturing Engineers chapter we had a tax problem - threatening letters, etc. Letters and copies of records didn’t work.
I went to a local IRS office and met with an auditor face to face. THAT worked. He took our side, fought our case through the bureaucracy, and got our problem fixed.