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Article: Tax Compliance: Challenges to Corporate Tax Enforcement and Options to Improve Securities Basis Reporting.
- Article from:
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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GAO-06-851T June 13, 2006
Corporate income taxes are expected to bring in about $277 billion in 2006 to help fund the activities of the federal government. Besides raising revenue, the tax alters investment decisions and raises concerns about competitiveness in an environment of increasing global interdependency. The complexity of the tax breeds tax avoidance, including an estimated $32 billion of noncompliance detected by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This testimony provides information on trends in corporate taxes and opportunities to improve corporate tax compliance. Congress also asked that GAO discuss recent work on the misreporting of capital gains ...