How is this for motivation? Tax auditors get 10% of all the taxes that they can show have been evaded on top of their salary. Now that would be a nice profitable solution, probably insuring that the biggest fish get caught first. Or am I being too symplistic here? :o)
Sonja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > << Well, they were more than "afraid." If I recall correctly, studies showed > that some astonishing proportion of EITC claims were fraudulent - over a > third, I believe. >> > > Okay, but there are also huge numbers of wealthy people evading taxes, too, > but Congress is starving the IRS of money for enforcement, modernization, > reorganization, etc. I agree that fraud is bad, m'kay?, but there's something > sick going on when a working stiff is many times more likely to be audited > than a high-earning executive. > > For me, a possible solution would be to simplify the tax stucture - flatten > the rates somewhat in exchange for almost no loopholes, along with a minimum > tax so that billionaires like Steve Forbes would have to pay *something*. But > the tax industry would hate that, as would Congress, which loves to dispense > tax savings to favored constituents (or at least those who yell the loudest > or bribe the most), even though that means moving a higher tax burden to > someone less influential. > > Tom Beck > > "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I didn't realize I'd also > see the last." - Jerry Pournelle
