And that "new" bureaucracy is to REPLACE (look it up!) the current IRS. Under the NRST, the present IRS would be disbanded and a new, much smaller NRST collection office would be established directly under the Secretary of Treasury. Since this new agency will NOT have to deal with 100 million individual taxpayers and 20 million businesses but only with the 45 to 50 state collection agencies, the entire federal end could be run by a few hundred folks. It might take perhaps 200 field agents (4 per state) to work with the state revenue offices to be certain they arent cooking the books or playing games with the feds piece of the action + additional for those non-sales tax states foolhardy enough to allow the feds to have their way with their businessmen. Perhaps another 100 more in the main office to run the computers and post deposits, make coffee, run out for the donuts, etc.
They WERE going to call this "NEW" bureaucracy "RAPLH" but settled on something a bit more descriptive of its activities.