Can you trust the IRS? As a taxpayer and U.S. Citizen, I often hear the question: “Can you trust the IRS?” In order to found out more about this ageless rhetorical question I had to make some detail analyses. While reading an article “Why you can’t Trust the IRS” written by Daniel J. Pilla, I found a few interesting facts about the IRS incapability of administrating and enforcing the nation’s tax law. The IRS has a very bad reputation in some circles. However, over the past ten years Congress has doubled the IRS budget and made that agency one of the fastest growing government organizations. Virtually all the constitutional rights regarding search, due process, and jury trial simply do not apply to the IRS. Its powers to investigate and examine …show more content…
When the tax system consists of 17,000 pages of law and regulation, compliance is no easy matter. (IRS 9). Most Americans make every reasonable effort to comply with the law. Often their efforts are defeated by one or two factors: they simply don’t understand what the law requires or they can’t afford to pay what they owe. Many taxpayers fail to comply because they are unaware of the requirements of the law or because they can’t easily understand what they are supposed to do. Paid preparers are not used only by rich taxpayers. The most frequently given reasons for using a preparer are the complicated nature of return preparation, or fear of making …show more content…
All of us are tax payers and must deal with the IRS at some point of time, thus all of us have been affected by the IRS. Daniel Pilla provides readers with his own experience with the IRS during his tax consultant career as well. To what extent is the IRS itself able to fully understand and correctly administer the tax laws? There is substantial evidence that Congress itself does not understand the tax laws it writes. Even if one gives the IRS the benefit of the doubt and assumes that the agency is not deliberately misleading Congress, the agency's unreliable projections and estimates are just the tip of the iceberg. The ironic truth is that the IRS has systemic problems with its accounting and recordkeeping