BTW... does anyone remember that the IRS said it would have to HIRE 15,000 agents to observe returns in order to police Obamacare compliance? Striking that mandate would allow the termination of those 15,000 IRS employees.
Posted on 03/03/2017 12:08:22 AM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
President Trump.... wants to significantly cut the tax agency’s funding at a time when it has already been bleeding staff and struggling to keep up with a flood of returns ahead of Tax Day....
...“This is an agency that has had every last drop squeezed out of it,” said Dennis J. Ventry Jr., a member of the I.R.S. advisory council and a law professor at the University of California, Davis. “I don’t know how it’s going to sustain itself.”....
....The White House budget office has proposed a 14.1 percent cut to the I.R.S. for the fiscal year that begins in October,...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Political hacks like Lois Lerner still there? Drain the swamp!
Send ICE in to deport them.
The income tax should be greatly simplified, starting with that unconstitutional abomination known as the 1040 Form - Line 61 - Health Care: Individual Responsibility check box and “shared responsibility” payment. I don’t care what the Supreme Court said. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining! We all KNOW it’s a penalty—not a tax.
Numbers is computers.
The IRS and the tax "code" is just that .... code.
Every penny earned/acquired/awarded etc., is documented.
A "bracket" is assigned and "X" percent is demanded.
Y'don't need the IRS but many do need an independent businessman .... your tax guy.
Depleted???
They just hired tens of thousands of new agents to enforce Obamacare.
NYT = Fake News
Failing New York Times loves taxes so much, let them cut a check out to the IRS.
And stop whining about its inability to suck the marrow out of hard-pressed Americans’ lives.
Let them put their money when they run their mouth sympathetically beseeching the dire straits the IRS is in.
The rest of us, for its information, don’t look forward to the tax paperwork and the money we have to send the federal government every year.
Sure, taxes are the price we pay for living in a civilized society but no one ever imagined how high that price is for every American from birth to death.
For most of us sans the New York Times, taxes and the taxman are a high price, indeed.
BTW... does anyone remember that the IRS said it would have to HIRE 15,000 agents to observe returns in order to police Obamacare compliance? Striking that mandate would allow the termination of those 15,000 IRS employees.
Not deep enough. It still lives.
If every employee at the IRS is required to WORK forty hours per week then the cuts won’t be noticed.
it’s still bloated and needs to be further slashed. Gov’ts are the only offices that expand faster than population growth.
the productive sector increases productivity faster than revenue growth routinely. Result is same number of people producing way more.
why can’t gov’t offices have same productivity increases ?
some 30-50% of office employees in Gov’t systems are not needed.
On March 15th - we shall see if Trump really has the balls to drain the swamp.
March 15th
“Already depleted”? They had enough personnel to harass Tea Party folk.
Explain.
Freakin disaster, man /s
The IRS was used as a criminal siphoning tool to suck working Americans money into thier pockets
March 15th is when the budget agreement of 2013 ends. To increase the federal debt it requires both Congress and the President to enact a new ( higher ) debt limit.
Back to the Gov’t shutdown hysteria nonsense and 800,000 non-essential federal employees laid off.
If Trump has the balls, he’ll let the non-essential parts of the Federal Gov’t remain closed and then submit a balanced budget for FY 2017/18.
that’s how to drain the swamp.
It should be zeroed out!!
The only reason that the IRS has BLOATED to it’s current size is to write and enforce more and more rules, laws and regulations to support THE ACCOUNTING INDUSTRY!
Go to a simple sales tax on purchased products, items and services and we can do away with the horrible, Nazi IRS in a day.
Prosecute Lois Lerner for what she did to conservative and religious groups.
IRS is political. Obama added thousands of agents to go after political enemies. Lay them off.
Any agency that can’t get Al Sharpton to pay back taxes shop get the Axe !!!
Prosecute Lois Lerner for what she did to conservative and religious groups.
IRS is political. Obama added thousands of agents to go after political enemies. Lay them off.
Any agency that can’t get Al Sharpton to pay back taxes shop get the Axe !!!
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