Are you kidding? The IRS is one of the most understaffed organizations we have.
That's good news.
Let's cut some more IRS jobs, shall we?
If the IRS had the staff, they wouldn't be farming out collection work to private companies. Next to the SEC, the IRS is extremely understaffed.
They shouldn't be doing that anyway. Something about keeping private records private, ya know?
Which are more complicated and take more time to audit based on the numerous seemingly legal ways to hide sales, not to mention outright illegal non-reporting of cash sales.
No, it's not complicated at all.
What were your sales this year? X dollars.
Your is X.Tax dollars.
You're trying to pretend it's more difficult to correlate a GAAP operated business than it is to sift through a bunch of individual tax returns with individual cirucmstances on each one, and then you're pretending it's more efficient to be snooping into all those lives.
I've run a business. I've taken cash and not reported it to the government. The government doesn't do the work to earn the money, so why should I be punished by being honest? Guess what? Anyone that does too much of that does wind up getting caught because the books won't add up.
Here's an real novel idea: Reduce government to the size it's supposed to be, which will reduce the taxes required, and more people will pay taxes because they'll weigh the cost benefits and choose to be honest.
Why do people cheat on taxes now? Because the government is stealing too much.
Any system that enables the oppressed a means to cheat their oppressors should be supported by everyone.
Auditing an individual is a far cry from auditing the inventory of millions of companies.
Yeah, it's harder, since there's so damn many of them.
Then again, the average citizen can't afford a lawyer to protect themselves from their own government. That's another reason we should stop the government from intruding into people's private affairs.