In the latest IRS figures, voluntary tax compliance for 2008-10 is 81.7 percent of the revenue the federal government believes it's entitled to collect.
The slide "Does not support concluding that noncompliance has increased," say the tax men.
In his classic 1993 book, For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, the late tax historian Charles Adams pointed out that "People instinctively, in all ages, have called tax men robbers because they operate by threats and intimidations and don't pay for what they take." Resentment brews, too, because taxes do not fit any traditional definition of a voluntarily incurred debt.
"A tax is owed because a government orders it to be paid," Adams added.
War tax resisters have a long and proud history of trying to deny fuel to the military machine.
Funding for these abusive government efforts comes courtesy of the IRS. The tax agency itself has a long history of politicization in high-profile cases, including the recent targeting of Tea Party groups and President Richard Nixon's harassment of political enemies through the "Special Services Staff."
Why are people so willing to turn over their hard-earned income to the tax man? "The power of the IRS is the power of FEAR," Schickel explained in his book.
https://reason.com/2019/04/15/starve-the-tax-man/
The slide "Does not support concluding that noncompliance has increased," say the tax men.
In his classic 1993 book, For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, the late tax historian Charles Adams pointed out that "People instinctively, in all ages, have called tax men robbers because they operate by threats and intimidations and don't pay for what they take." Resentment brews, too, because taxes do not fit any traditional definition of a voluntarily incurred debt.
"A tax is owed because a government orders it to be paid," Adams added.
War tax resisters have a long and proud history of trying to deny fuel to the military machine.
Funding for these abusive government efforts comes courtesy of the IRS. The tax agency itself has a long history of politicization in high-profile cases, including the recent targeting of Tea Party groups and President Richard Nixon's harassment of political enemies through the "Special Services Staff."
Why are people so willing to turn over their hard-earned income to the tax man? "The power of the IRS is the power of FEAR," Schickel explained in his book.
https://reason.com/2019/04/15/starve-the-tax-man/
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