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National Taxpayer Advocate’s Report Aims to Shift More IRS Dollars to Helping Taxpayers
By Surgent CPE
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In her National Taxpayer Advocate report to Congress this past Tuesday, Nina Olson detailed the annual IRS appropriation of $11.2 billion and highlighted a grave disparity. Ultimately, her report recommends a different approach – one where the IRS assumes that taxpayers, for the most part, seek to obey the tax law, and can re-focus its funds to facilitate compliance by providing taxpayers with the assistance needed to meet their tax obligations.