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Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« on: May 16, 2021, 03:49:24 pm »
Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
By Naomi Jagoda - 05/16/21 11:00 AM EDT

Lawmakers are debating President Biden’s pitches to strengthen tax enforcement against high-income individuals and businesses as Congress considers different ways to pay for infrastructure legislation.

Democrats and Republicans both say they want to narrow the gap between taxes paid and the amount owed, suggesting that going after tax cheats could garner bipartisan support as a potential revenue stream.

But Republicans have become increasingly critical of the details in Biden’s proposal, a sign that hurdles remain to reaching an agreement on enforcement.

“We should pursue bipartisan measures to reduce the tax gap and better enforce our tax laws,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), said at a Senate hearing last week. “But any such effort must strike an appropriate balance between taxpayer responsibilities and taxpayer rights.”

Biden has called for providing the IRS with an additional $80 billion over the next decade to ramp up enforcement, update technology and improve customer service at the agency. He has also proposed requiring banks to include new info on account activity in annual reports to the IRS so that the agency can better target its audits.

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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2021, 06:19:37 pm »
Having problems writing a public law that would say "(D)'s exempt from taxation", are they?
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2021, 06:37:26 pm »
Why do i get the impression that Biden's relentless massive spending was always intended to be followed ruthlessly by the excuse to viciously collect taxes from people, to oppress the overtaxed unemployed who cannot possibly pay ?  Communist oppress more than they cruelly rule, we see the beginnings of Communists rule here, complete with unending crisis-es and shortages.  Democrats did appoint czars in our government and ushered infiltrating jihad muslims into our government, didn't they! ?  Now you can better see why.
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2021, 06:51:44 pm »
Maybe they should go after spend cheats - legislators who spend money they don't have.
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2021, 06:56:39 pm »
Quote from: Sled Dog on May 16, 2021, 06:19:37 pm
Having problems writing a public law that would say "(D)'s exempt from taxation", are they?
A good chunk of the D voter base already is exempt from taxes.
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2021, 05:42:19 am »
All nonsense!!!  End the IRS now!!!  Implement a Fair Tax on consumption, and end Income Tax altogether!!  No returns needed any longer!!!  No IRS either!!!
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2021, 07:52:19 pm »
Are the lawmakers bickering because some of them are the biggest tax cheats in the nation?
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2021, 08:19:54 pm »

Start with an IRS audit of every member of Congress and their immediate blood, marriage, and legal relatives; an FEC audit of every Congress member's campaign accounts; and a Congressional Ethics audit of every Congress member's conflict of interest disclosures.

... let see what falls out those trees from the shaking.
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2021, 08:24:38 pm »
Quote from: jafo2010 on May 17, 2021, 05:42:19 am
All nonsense!!!  End the IRS now!!!  Implement a Fair Tax on consumption, and end Income Tax altogether!!  No returns needed any longer!!!  No IRS either!!!

I'll take the IRS any day over the BATF(and everything else sold).
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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2021, 09:07:59 pm »
Quote from: jafo2010 on May 17, 2021, 05:42:19 am
All nonsense!!!  End the IRS now!!!  Implement a Fair Tax on consumption, and end Income Tax altogether!!  No returns needed any longer!!!  No IRS either!!!

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Re: Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2021, 10:49:54 am »
How to go after tax cheats? 
This is amusing considering that so many Congressional members owe back taxes and have owed them for decades.
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