“It costs too much” is a horseshit excuse when the result of the audit would likely pay for itself many times over. Use the first couple of years to automate/streamline as much of the process as you can, and they’ll likely start just paying the damn things like they should have been in the first place, if only to avoid the hassle.
Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'
Ageroth@reddthat.com 1 day agoThe resources required to enforce such rules are controlled by the people who benefit from that not being the rules. Hell, the IRS has essentially said they don’t have the resources to go after the biggest tax evaders because it costs too much.
www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-rich
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
I realize that’s an old article, but the problem is just the fucking MAGAt Rapepublicans gutting the IRS. I mean, on one hand you are right, they don’t have the manpower. By design. By the oligarchs who own the gov’t.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Excuses it cost everyone more if they don’t