NYT reports:
One of the advocate’s suggestions for streamlining the tax code was to repeal the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax system intended to make sure rich Americans pay a fair amount in taxes, which is increasingly engulfing middle-class taxpayers. Another was to reduce the number of income exclusions, deductions and credits, known collectively as “tax expenditures,” that clutter up the tax code.[...]
The national taxpayer advocate, an independent position with the I.R.S. that Congress created to assist taxpayers in resolving problems, also criticized Congress’s recent budget cuts to the I.R.S.
(ht Joe Cotter)
I have a better way to unclutter the tax code: repeal the 16th Amendment and abolish the IRS. Voila!
ReplyDeleteAnd it would help "starve the beast".
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