Forgetting the main reason the tax code will not be simplified: Jobs.
How many accountants and tax preparers would be out of work if a flat tax ever went into effect? Do you seriously think they don’t lobby against a simpler tax code?
RE: How many accountants and tax preparers would be out of work if a flat tax ever went into effect? Do you seriously think they don’t lobby against a simpler tax code?
I think I see the reasoning here... let’s complicate the tax code even more to create more jobs for accountants, lawyers and the like...
Why not create more complicated government rules so that more jobs will be generated navigating through these rules?
For that matter, why not encourage unruly kids to break more windows so that glass and window makers can have more businesses and hire more glass and window makers?
How many horn and string players lost their jobs when the Titanic went down?
Not to mention the number of IRS employees that would lose their jobs.
Friggin leeches. The whole lot of them.
“How many accountants and tax preparers would be out of work if a flat tax ever went into effect? Do you seriously think they don’t lobby against a simpler tax code?”
You are leaving out all the tax law firms that advertise their availability to “go to bat for you with the IRS.”