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IRS Turns To Crowdsourcing To Improve Systems

IRS Turns To Crowdsourcing To Improve Systems

There will be prizes for Overall Design $10,000 and $5,000 – Best Taxpayer Usefulness $2,000 and $1,000 – and -Best Financial Capability $2,000 and $1,000-.  It says the awards “may be subject to federal income taxes”, but if you are smart enough to redesign the whole system, maybe you will be smart enough to figure out a way around that.

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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.