Make The IRS Great Again
Regardless, there are some people who instead of honing selling and political skills become great accountants. Some of them are very compliance oriented. They get frustrated by things not being right, because things should be done right, because right is right even though the client doesn’t want to pay for it and the IRS will never figure it out.
That’s who the IRS should be hiring. In many areas of tax practice the best and the brightest work for the IRS for a few years, then go into public accounting or the law firms for much bigger money. The IRS should turn the tables and grab up the compliance-oriented people who know where the bodies are likely buried. IRS could offer good benefits, a better work life balance and a great deal of perverse satisfaction.
If The IRS Plays Politics With Tax-Exempts, President Trump Is Holding A Smoking Tweet
But there’s a nontechnical problem, too, which is in many ways worse. President Trump seems to want to emulate the worst aspects of President Nixon. Nixon tried to use the IRS to attack his enemies. And Trump wants to use the IRS to attack people and organizations with which he disagrees. Fortunately, there are protections in place making it hard for him to use the IRS this way. But he’s proven particularly effective at ignoring and subverting norms; this is one that I hope he doesn’t manage to subvert
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.