[PDF] Bridging The Tax Gap eBook

Author : Max Sawicky
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
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Offering thorough understanding of the crisis facing federal tax administration and suggesting practical approach to solving issues that have arisen.

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2008
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A significant and pernicious problem facing the nation is the tax gap, the difference between what is owed in taxes and what is paid. Estimated to be over $300 billion annually, the tax gap represents an enormous revenue loss for the government. This lack of revenue often causes unnecessary increases in annual deficits and the national debt, increasing national interest payments and adding pressure to cut vital government services. Unfortunately, much of the gap must be made up eventually by honest taxpayers through higher taxes and by beneficiaries of federal investments through service cuts. Bridging the Tax Gap: The Case for Increasing the IRS Budget illustrates some of the factors that perpetuate the tax gap and offers practical solutions to the problem.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
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ISBN : 9781985557116

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Bridging the tax gap : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, July 21, 2004.

Author : James R. White
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1437941303

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not know how many businesses failed to file required returns, nor does it have an estimate of the associated lost tax revenue -- the business non-filing tax gap. Many cases it does investigate are unproductive because the business does not owe the return IRS expects. This report assessed: (1) the data challenges of estimating the business non-filer tax gap; (2) how recent program changes have affected IRS's capacity to identify and pursue business non-filers; and (3) additional opportunities for IRS to use third-party data. The report reviewed IRS's tax gap estimates, non-filer program processes and procedures, and matched closed non-filer cases with various other data. Includes recommend. Charts and tables.

Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815796565

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People pay taxes for two reasons. On the positive side, most people recognize, even if grudgingly, that payment of tax is a duty of citizenship. On the negative side, they know that the law requires payment, that evasion is a crime, and that willful failure to pay taxes is punishable by fines or imprisonment. The practical questions for tax administration are how to strengthen each of these motives to comply with the law. How much should be spent on enforcement and how should enforcement be organized to promote these objectives and achieve the best results per dollar spent? Over the last few years, the U.S. Congress has restricted spending on tax administration, forcing the Internal Revenue Service to curtail enforcement activities, at the same time, that the number of individual filers has increased, tax rules have become more complex, and more business have become multinational operations. But if too many cases of tax evasion go undetected and unpunished, those who may have grudgingly paid their taxes may soon find it easier to join the scofflaws. These events in combination have created a genuine crisis in tax administration. The chapters in this volume evaluate the capacity of authorities to enforce the tax laws in a modern, global economy and examine the implications of failing to do so. Specific aspects of tax law, including tax shelters, issues relating to small businesses, tax software, role of tax preparers, and the objectives of tax simplification are examined in detail. The volume also builds a conceptual basis for future scholarship, with regard not only to tax administration, but also to such fundamental questions as whether taxpayers respond mostly to economic incentives or are influenced by their experiences with the filing process and what is the proper framework for evaluating the allocation of resources within the IRS.