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Individual Taxes

The House GOP’s Vote To Cut IRS Funding Was Just One Skirmish In A Long War

January 11, 2023 –
It is easy to write off as mere symbolism the House vote to rescind nearly all the $80 billion IRS funding increase Congress approved last...
Individual Taxes

How Will Congress Assess The Success Of Its $80 Billion Investment In The IRS?

December 8, 2022 –
How will we know whether the Inflation Reduction Act’s $80 billion ten-year investment in the Internal Revenue Service is successful? Unfortunately, measuring performance isn’t easy,...
Individual Taxes

Can Machine Learning Improve Tax Enforcement Without Human Teachers?

July 14, 2022 –
When it comes to tax enforcement, I used to believe the Internal Revenue Service could never have too much information. But the agency already collects...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Another Brutal Filing Season for The IRS May Not Help It Get More Funding

April 18, 2022 –
The Internal Revenue Service has limped through yet another tax filing season, reduced to plugging staffing holes in customer service and returns processing by shifting...
Business Taxes

Wyden’s Billionaire Income Tax Is Ambitious But Problematic

October 25, 2021 –
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) likes to say : “There are two tax codes in the United States: one for workers who pay...

How Should Congress Fund Investments in The Internal Revenue Service’s Infrastructure?

July 7, 2021 –
Congress is moving toward rectifying the decade-long funding crisis at the IRS . The House is on track to adopt President Biden’s proposed $1.6 billion...
Business Taxes

Biden’s Effort to Close the Tax Gap Is Well-Intentioned but Flawed

May 3, 2021 –
In his American Families Plan, President Biden unveiled a tax compliance initiative aimed at closing the gap between taxes that are owed and what are...
Business Taxes

Too Many IRS Audits of Big Businesses Result In No Change In Tax Liability

April 19, 2021 –
Change can be good, right? Maybe or maybe not. But if you are the Internal Revenue Service, “no change” audits never are good. And, for...
Business Taxes

If Congress Wants the IRS To Collect More Tax from The Rich, It Needs to Pass Better Laws

April 5, 2021 –
Last week, a group of prominent academic and government economists published a study that estimated the top 1 percent of Americans hide more than 20...
Business Taxes

The Supreme Court Is Hearing A Case That Could Block the IRS From Halting Abusive Tax Shelters

November 30, 2020 –
Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in CIC Services v. IRS, a case that threatens to damage the integrity of the tax...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

  • Tax Professor Daniel Hemel
Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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