Association For Honest Attorneys Founder Really Needed A Competent Accountant
Finally, an observation on the sad fallout from the interminable IRS scandal. With the budget cuts and general demoralization, audit rates are down. Compliance is going to erode and more and more sloppiness and outright shenanigans are going to go undetected. Audits serve an educational function. At Lu Gauthier’s Boston Tax Institute seminars, grizzled veterans will compare notes. Old hands will tell youngsters about things that clients get tripped up on – cautionary tales. There will be fewer of those in the next few years. Perhaps more significantly, anybody who does get audited will more likely think that they have been targeted as they get raked over the coals for practices that they know are commonplace.
IRS Keeps Percentages Paid Private Collection Companies Secret
Anyway to a layman to the mysteries of FOIA, I don’t find the argument for non-disclosure very compelling. ConServe is worried that if other companies knew what they were charging to contact delinquent taxpayers, those companies might offer to do it for less. Like that would be a bad thing. I think it would be a good thing and I thought it might just be me and Mr. Hodes, but as it turns out that is not the case.
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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.