There was a time when people thought our hosts weren't collecting and remitting taxes, and we've been very proactive about going out and trying to solve this.
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it's not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I'm not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money.
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.
The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.
Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.
The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.
Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.
He resigned from the IRS.
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."
It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.
Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.
Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.
Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.
On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how to collect taxes, but surely know how to misspend the funds.
Developing countries can make great strides towards more progressive and effective taxation and spending through action within their own borders. But the damage caused by exemptions, loopholes, and tax havens requires action beyond national borders - it requires international action and cooperation.
