Posted on 01/01/2016 10:53:02 AM PST by Twotone
A bill introduced by two House Republicans earlier this month would force tax preparers to undergo continuous training and pass costly, restrictive licensing exams. According to a report from The Daily Signal, Reps. Diane Black and Pat Meehan presented the bill as a way to fight tax fraud and other criminal activity.
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Could this be a backdoor attempt to force everyone to use government-monitored tax preparers to ensure that maximum taxes are collected and deductions and tax havens and tracked and monitored?
-PJ
....Why would they do this?....
Follow the money, there is big money made by outfits like H&R Block. They are losing money to private tax preparers, so the answer today is Don’t compete, have the government complicate your competitions ability to compete against you. Buy off a few Rep congressmen and do things the easy way.
Crony capitalism on the open stage.
I imagine the experts at Turbo Tax would have to have the same training. Not the programmers, but the tax experts they work with. We use Turbo Tax, & it does make tax filing much easier. But we don’t necessarily have very complex taxes to work out.
The uniparty and its government are nearly $20 trillion in debt.
They will need the IRS to find money to stay alive. They can’t hire that many agents, but they can create an army of crony, private, un-deputized agents who will tacitly aid the IRS’ in their goal of maximizing revenue.
Obviously it would make independent tax preparers a thing of the past and enrich the franchised operations.
Follow the money. Samo. Samo.
With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
Once that happens, we are no longer a free people paying what we say we owe in taxes; we become serfs who line up to be given what the government deems we earned, while they keep the rest.
-PJ
I’m as anti-income tax complexity as anybody, and I don’t like an out of contol IRS; however, I’m with you - some idiot who’s not adequately prepared to navigate the IRS leviathan can really screw somebody over.
Until we get tax code simplification, this is probably more a good thing than bad.
Is this *getting your attention* -
*distracting* from ALL THE TREASONOUS THINGS THE REGIME IS DOING ?!
ONE MORE TIME ! THEY DO IT OVER AND OVER -
How about a software check that would prevent hundreds of EITC refund checks going to a single address?
Call the I.R.S. 10 different times with a tax question and you will get 12 different answers. I.R.S. should stop affirmative action hiring.
Simplify taxes is the way to fight fraud.
Fat chance of that happening.
In my little southern town, there must be 30 “tax prep” businesses ... and for every tax form they complete that is less $$$$ in the hands of H&R Block, et al ...
So, money. That’s why they did it.
ABOLISH THE IRS!
>>Patriots need to vote for Cruz because he wants to eliminate the IRS<<
I agree with Ted Cruz on a number of issues, but this one alone he captured my vote.
Cruz 2016
This is the correct question.
Patriots need to support Cruz by electing a Congress that likewise wants to get rid of the IRS, or it aint gonna happen.
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