Why would they do this?
The only surprise is that this has not happened sooner.
Good thing it’s Republicans sponsoring this! Imagine if Dems did it. They’d make everyone undergo tax training!
Yet another reason to repeal the 16th Amendment and close the IRS.
Big companies lobby for regs that are high negatives to small companies.
Also, tax preparers need to know that they have the constitutional authority to stop the IRS by referencing the following. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the IRS. So Congress has a constitutional ”monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not imo.
But by delegating federal legislative / regulatory powers to IRS bureaucrats for example, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 referenced above.
Also, to actually simplify their work, tax preparers also need to start pointing out the following. A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting ustices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriatiing taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And speaking of corrupt Congress, when patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect as president, they also need to do this. They need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, while prohibiting the executive and judicial branches, along with federal bureaucrats, from stealing legislative branch powers.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
“...undergo continuous training and pass costly, restrictive licensing exams.”
Who will do the training? The IRS hasn’t a clue of what all is in the tax code. Need proof? Call the IRS help line several times, asking the same question, and see how many different answers you get.
It’s only a matter of time before they will make it illegal for individuals to do their own taxes.
Could this be a backdoor attempt to force everyone to use government-monitored tax preparers to ensure that maximum taxes are collected and deductions and tax havens and tracked and monitored?
-PJ
The uniparty and its government are nearly $20 trillion in debt.
They will need the IRS to find money to stay alive. They can’t hire that many agents, but they can create an army of crony, private, un-deputized agents who will tacitly aid the IRS’ in their goal of maximizing revenue.
With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
Is this *getting your attention* -
*distracting* from ALL THE TREASONOUS THINGS THE REGIME IS DOING ?!
ONE MORE TIME ! THEY DO IT OVER AND OVER -
How about a software check that would prevent hundreds of EITC refund checks going to a single address?
Call the I.R.S. 10 different times with a tax question and you will get 12 different answers. I.R.S. should stop affirmative action hiring.
Simplify taxes is the way to fight fraud.
ABOLISH THE IRS!
Wow, better tell that to all the Mexicans who have their signs offering services in Spanish all over their sections of cities. Or will they, like in most things, be exempt?
Oh for cripes sakes, there isn’t even anyone in the IRS who KNOWS the tax code. Codes on top of codes on top of codes, it’s pure BS at this point.