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Individual Taxes

The IRS Audit Rate is Plummeting. Does It Matter?

April 2, 2018 –
The IRS has reported that its overall audit rate is continuing to fall , especially for businesses and high-income individual taxpayers. The Service audits less...
Individual Taxes

The IRS Private Debt Collection Program Once Again Looks Like A Failure

January 12, 2018 –
The IRS’s Private Debt Collection Program Once Again Looks Like A Failure What’s the old line about “fool me once?” When it comes to privatizing...
Individual Taxes

Why Do We Make It So Hard For Immigrants To Pay Their Taxes?

October 12, 2017 –
Why do we make it so hard for immigrants to pay their federal income taxes? Why do we throw so many roadblocks between them and...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Could President Trump sell his business, tax free?

December 1, 2016 –
Yesterday, President-elect Trump tweeted he would leave his businesses “in total” to reduce his potential conflicts as President. The Office of Government Ethics (“OGE”), tweeted...
Individual Taxes

How Americans Learn The Wrong Lessons from Tax Day

April 11, 2016 –
Next week marks the end of an arduous annual civic ritual, the filing of income tax returns. It should come as no surprise that the many hours...
Individual Taxes

The Case of the Little Wrong Thing: Evading Online Sales Tax

August 5, 2015 –
Our eight-year-old son wants to write the President. “He needs to get a law passed that will make it illegal to throw cigarette butts out of car...
Individual Taxes

The Scary New World of Tax Fraud

May 14, 2015 –
Back in the day—say 2011--tax fraud was pretty straightforward. Taxpayers deliberately understated income or overstated deductions to cheat the...
Individual Taxes

The IRS Should Fix Its Letter Audit Program

January 20, 2015 –
The beleaguered IRS has two enormous challenges: It must rebuild its reputation to win congressional support for the funding it needs to do its job...
Individual Taxes

Can Behavioral Science Improve Tax Compliance?

July 9, 2012 –
In Sunday's New York Times, Richard Thaler laments that “as a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice...