That is the way it was done at the onset of income tax collections.. Getting rid of the IRS does not mean getting rid of the collections process.
In fact, once simplified, you don't need 90% of the accountants or 90% of the IRS..You can transfer the collection and records sections to the department of the Treasury, where it once was...and where it should be. We won't need need this:
"The Information Please Database indicates that 92,033 people worked for the Internal Revenue Service in 2007. The number of people employed by the IRS has declined over the years; in the 1990s, the number of people employed by the agency averaged above 110,000."
OK.....so if you still think we need all that, I wonder what they would all be doing..
Thank you. IRS is not synonymous with tax collection.