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If the IRS Gets $80 Billion, Will Its Agents Come Gunning for You?

August 11, 2022 –
With the near-certain enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Internal Revenue Service is on track for an $80 billion boost to its ten-year budget...
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...

Volunteer Tax Prep Is A Crash Course in Pandemic Tax Policy

April 25, 2022 –
A few Tax Policy Center staffers and I spend tax season volunteering for the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, providing free tax preparation...
Individual Taxes

Are Taxes Complicated? Compared to What?

April 15, 2022 –
As the April 18 deadline for filing income tax rapidly approaches, many people will complain about how complicated the process is. But there is a...
Individual Taxes

The Tax Gap’s Many Shades Of Gray

February 22, 2022 –
The “tax gap”—the difference between taxes owed to the government and taxes actually collected—often is equated with evasion . But the tax gap is more...
Individual Taxes

Crypto Tax Provision May Prompt Investors to Push Industry for More Compliance Help

October 7, 2021 –
The congressional debate over new tax compliance measures for cryptocurrency investors has primarily focused on two issues—the potential to raise new revenue and what parts...
Individual Taxes

Understanding the Heated Debate Over Cryptocurrencies and Tax Compliance

August 10, 2021 –
Even close followers of tax news may have been caught off guard when compliance for cryptocurrencies became the hot topic in the Senate’s debate over...
Individual Taxes

Crypto Confusion Shows Why Congress Is Broken

August 10, 2021 –
In what has become common practice, a handful of senators and Administration staffers tried over a few days to draft a highly complex bit of...
Individual Taxes

Interest Grows in Combining Voter Registration With Tax Filing

June 3, 2021 –
What if millions of state or federal income tax filers had the opportunity to register to vote or update their voter registration at the same...

Will Biden’s Plan to Reduce the Tax Gap by Increasing the IRS’s Budget Raise $300 Billion?

May 3, 2021 –
I —among many others —have called for more money for the Internal Revenue Service to enable it to collect even more money owed to the...

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What is the tax gap?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What is the tax gap?

A.

The gross tax gap is the difference between total taxes owed and taxes paid on time.

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