An agency that is out of control. It is the ultimate arm of a coercive government. It has the power to take all your money without being answerable to anyone.
Doing away with this totalitarian agency is politically difficult and maybe impossible, since it is essentially a make-work welfare program for those who are the special beneficiaries of an out of control government.
"... Doing away with this totalitarian agency is politically difficult and maybe impossible ..."
Not at all. All that is required is to pass the FairTax bill (HR25). It eliminates the income, payroll, gift, and estate taxes as well as the appropriate portions of the tax code, eliminates the IRS (and defunds it for good measure), requires the destruction of the income tax records, and calls for the repeal of he 16th amendment.
The solution to these tax conundrums is much closer at hand than you even know.
WAKE UP!! It's time for the FairTax!!!