I don’t think the Fair Tax will bring so many compliance issues as to require 30,000 people to administer it. The number of forms, receipts, and BS that I have to save in order to (1) comply with the law and (2) take all the deductions I am allowed, and the time it takes to do that, REALLY pisses me off. This on top of the injury of taking so much money from me every year, mostly to give it away to people and causes I don’t support. The Fair Tax wouldn’t address the latter injury, but at least it wouldn’t cause me so much aggravation on the first part.
I do not understand the the objection to filling out forms. If you keep good records etc on Quicken it is almost painless to roll them into Turbotax (or some other program) for tax preparations. I see crazy numbers of how long it takes people to do taxes. I do my personal ones and several for my companies in less than one day - all of the info is already tabulated and it just rolls in. We do have to check them but it is easy when you do not have to go to the shoe box and try and remember every transaction. Do not forget theere will surely be other requirements on tracking of funds by other agencies. They are not going to give up the stock transfer, money movement etc that is already tracked. You may even be required to account for any funds over $10,000 as part of the WOD- which goes on now and will not go away.
I do agree that being taxed to support things you do not support or condone sucks but that is that way of the taxman.