EFTA Document EFTA01452349

In a nutshell...Tax collectors are never popular. Yet if the IRS lacks sufficient funds to do its job properly, that means fewer dollars all around for all federal programs, including national defense, Social Security and Medicare - and for reducing the deficit. Perhaps, as Ms. Olson suggests, Congress should change the way it approaches the IRS's budget and fund the IRS at whatever level Congress believes will "maximize tax compliance, particularly voluntary compliance, with due regard for