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    Complaints over lack of sufficient funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) often appear at this time of year, just as taxpayers are beginning to focus on readying their tax returns due in April. This year is no exception. Whining over insufficient funding began with Dennis Ventry, the chairman of the IRS Advisory Council (IRSAC), who complained on Monday that Trump’s tax reform had created a “nightmare” for the agency. He lamented: “[IRS] personnel had to work on reform this year when they otherwise would have been working on something else. So, in some respects, it was a lost year.”

    That lost year, Ventry opined, cost the federal government billions in taxes owed but not collected. And it’s all because Congress keeps cutting the IRS budget. As a result, the IRS now employs about 24,000 fewer full-time agents than it did back in 2010 (now down to a scant 76,000), with most of those cuts (17,000) coming from the tax-enforcement arm. Ventry estimates that the agency was unable to collect somewhere between $58 billion to $84 billion over the last eight years due to those cuts.

    The agency may be underfunded. It may not have enough agents to prepare themselves for questions arising from taxpayers over Trump’s tax-reform act. It may be leaving money on the table as a result. But at bottom, the agency not only has brought this upon itself by its past and recent unconstitutional behaviors, it also violates the principle that what a person earns he has a right to keep. Instead, through withholding, the government stands in front of the taxpayer to get its share first, allowing the taxpayer to keep what is left. There is no sympathy from this corner. The damage done was done by the agency itself.

    More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...nues-to-shrink
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    This is really bad, some people might decide they can get away with not paying taxes. Commie bastards.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Without government we can't have freedom, and without taxes we can't have government. That would be anarchy.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Dennis Ventry, the chairman of the IRS Advisory Council (IRSAC), [...] complained on Monday that Trump’s tax reform had created a “nightmare” for the agency. He lamented: “[IRS] personnel had to work on reform this year when they otherwise would have been working on something else. So, in some respects, it was a lost year.”
    LMAO @ "something else" ...

    ... He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance ...

    That lost year, Ventry opined, cost the federal government billions in taxes owed but not collected. And it’s all because Congress keeps cutting the IRS budget. As a result, the IRS now employs about 24,000 fewer full-time agents than it did back in 2010 (now down to a scant 76,000), with most of those cuts (17,000) coming from the tax-enforcement arm. Ventry estimates that the agency was unable to collect somewhere between $58 billion to $84 billion over the last eight years due to those cuts.
    Instead of sniveling, Ventry should be profoundly grateful that those whose substance he eats out are such pushovers nowadays. Once upon a time ...


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    The IRS should have no enforcement wing . None .
    Do something Danke

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    fukkem

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    It's not underfunded. It's cutting staff since the IRS mission and structure is changing. The IRS exists as the private collection agency of the Fed. As the current iteration of the Fed goes away (as the issuer of the global reserve currency), so does the giant IRS bureaucracy.

    The Trump tax return creating a nightmare thing is funny since I'd bet dollars to donuts that Trump doesn't file income taxes. Just like Obama doesn't have a birth certificate. They play by a different set of rules than the little people. They know the secrets of the system. Trump's various corporate entities and trusts file taxes but Donald John Trump does not.
    Last edited by devil21; 12-13-2018 at 02:53 PM.
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    $#@! the IRS.
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