[Moose Dung]

The Tax Gap

"The Tax Gap is the difference between what taxpayers should have paid and what they actually paid on a timely basis."

This is NOT true. The "tax gap" is the difference between what is actually collected and a THEORETICAL estimate of what is "DUE" the IRS including the underground economy.

You will notice from the article that this effort will be focused on SMALL BUSINESSES (i.e., Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, and S-Corps).
BUT NOT CRIMINALS!!

The fact is that the US has the highest rate of tax compliance of any country in the world. The dems want to increase tax revenues without actually increasing taxes. How? By increasing government data collection, profiling, audits of small businesses, etc. They are going to expand the IRS enforcement arm and make the system more intrusive to squeeze every "THEORETICAL" cent they can out of the public.

"Based in part on the prior NRP reporting compliance study of individual income tax returns, IRS officials estimate that the net tax gap for tax year 2001 was $290 billion.

That equates to $2,231 per household in the US! The "tax gap" estimate is total BS and will be used to collect more data, kick-down doors, and sieze more property.

dung.

[socialismisinsidious]

Wow we hand them all kinds of power via withholding and the 60K tax code and then we act shocked when they abuse it. What did the sheople think was going to happen?! a big Duh. Want Congress to stop vote buying with our money, want to stop the socialist slide.....then put a stake in the source of their power: the vote buying, lobby loving 60K page tax code! www.fairtax.org

[Orange1998]

Does it say ANYTHING about tracking illegal alien tax fraud. Millions of dollars are wired to Mexico tax free. Maybe just law abiding citizens are held accountable.

[Cementjungle]

You will notice from the article that this effort will be focused on SMALL BUSINESSES

I read somewhere over a year ago that the IRS was going to focus more on small businesses because they felt they were missing a lot there. This doesn't strike me as any new revelation.

[SolidRedState]

Apparently everyone missed this part...

The data also enables the IRS to audit fewer taxpayers with accurate tax returns, which lessens the burden on compliant taxpayers.

Translation: FEWER ACTUAL AUDITS

[The Great RJ]

13,000 randomly selected tax year 2006 individual returns

That's one lottery you don't want to win.

[newcthem]

Of course this only applies to law abiding citizens never to Jorge’s Mexican CRIMINALS....................