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Article: CORRECT ANSWER: SIMPLIFY TAX CODE EVEN THE IRS CAN'T FIGURE OUT THE FEDERAL TAX CODE.(OPINION)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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When the Internal Revenue Service flunked a test to see if it could provide correct answers to taxpayers' questions, the result was not so much an indictment of the IRS as it was an indictment of the federal tax code.
The U.S. Tax Code is such a mind-numbing mass of complexity that it's no wonder the IRS staff can't get it right.
And that, in turn, is an indictment of Congress, which has continued to make the tax code more and more complicated.
The IRS has consistently performed poorly when various organizations have tested the accuracy of its staff responses to tax questions. The latest bad grade came when U.S. Treasury Department ...