[molson209]

Just give the Obama Admin all the money , then they will give you want they think you deserve

[yldstrk]

oh yeah, that’ll work, good one.

[Farmer Dean]

Why don’t we just send them our entire incomes,they will send back what they think we need to survive.

[yldstrk]

no competing interests there sarc

[KarlInOhio]

Adding up the income is the easy part. The tricky part is adding up the deductions. The IRS will know how much mortgage interest you've paid because of the 1099. They could know how much state and city income tax you've paid with some changes by the local governments reporting it, just as they do with any refunds they send you. Charitable and medical deductions and the ten thousand different social engineering tax credits and deductions are what make taxes hard and those are the ones which the IRS won't know about.

[driftdiver]

This has been in the works for 10 years. They plan to use their real time access to our accounts to track income and spending.

[Pearls Before Swine]

In the days of serfdom, the tax collector came by and did your taxes for you by grabbing some of your geese. No one ever underpaid.

[Jonty30]

If I let the IRS do my taxes, I would probably be spending the next 5 years in prison. When I got out, I’d be going back in for letting them do it again.

[Chode]

why not simply goto a 10% flat tax and eliminate the IRS all together???

[Ben Mugged]

Let’s go to the Fair Tax and eliminate the IRS.

[sasquatch]

1040RealEZ:
Line one: How much did you make last year?
Line two: Send it in.

[taxcontrol]

Here is my counter proposal: Flat Tax

[bigbob]

There’s one for you, nineteen for me

[Jack Hydrazine]

What happens if you start a Tea Party or other conservative group?

[null and void]

[unixfox]

I say flood them with paper returns. Flood them with phone calls. Make those assholes regret working for that criminal organization.

[dalereed]

Only works for the brain dead!!

The tax code is thousands of pages on how not to pay taxes.

[RetiredTexasVet]

They have had that program around for years. The real problem is that if it is instituted for everyone is if you are on the enemies list .....

[SES1066]

I’m a seasonal, professional tax preparer of 10 years plus and an Enrolled Agent qualified to practice and represent taxpayers in civil matters in IRS disputes. There are areas in the tax code that are so confusing, so nuanced as to defy simple answers. When I prepare a return, I look for everything I can find to lower a client’s tax burden, this has been decided as a right by the US Supreme Court. When an IRS Employee (Lois Learner?) does a tax return, are they going to do the same? The ancient Romans had a saying - Qui bono! Look it up!

[oldtech]

When I hear of people calling the IRS with a question & getting 10 different answers to the same question;this seems like a bit of a crapshoot.