With a Flat Tax that IRS is still in place and can audit you, therefore it is still a bad choice.
National sales tax. Get rid of the income tax altogether. No value added tax, just a straight sales tax with a limit of 10 percent maixmum, no deductions for anyone and an abolishment of the 16th amendment.
"With a Flat Tax that IRS is still in place and can audit you, therefore it is still a bad choice."
And, exactly what will there be to audit? With no deductions there isn't much to audit is there? If you're the typical wage earner with mostly W-2 or 1099 income, what's there to fear from an 'audit'?
With an NRST, OTOH, every business owner in the US will be faced with audits of their receipts and tax collections. The IRS may be renamed but there will still be jobs for all those bureaucrats checking on compliance with their new tax collectors, ie, the businessman.
Not necessarily. Since [a flat tax] is so simple to fill out, there'd be fewer IRS audits.