Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the tax collection and enforcement agency of the United States Treasury Department.^{[citation needed]}

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Many libertarians have called for abolishing the IRS. Anarcho-capitalists call for completely abolishing the federal government, which would eliminate any need for federal taxes. Some minarchists favor a program of drastic tax reform that would put the states in charge of collecting federal taxes. For example, many states already collect sales taxes for their own purposes, so it would be administratively simple for them to increase the sales tax rate by a few percentage points and give those extra revenues over to the federal government, perhaps with an agreed-upon fee deducted for carrying out the service of tax collection.^{[citation needed]}

Links

• "The Attack on Accidental Americans" by Wendy McElroy, September 2011
• "Should the IRS Audit More Taxpayers?" by George C. Leef, May 2006
• Why is Catching a Baseball Taxable Income? by Justin Ptak, August 2007
• Turn your friends over to the revenuers and get rich by Jeffrey Tucker, December 2007
• GAO Finds Serious Flaws in IRS Controls by Stephen Taub, November 2005
• "The Curse of the Withholding Tax" by Laurence M. Vance, April 2005
• The IRS Targets Conservatives, The Wall Street Journal, May 2013
• Internal Revenue Service at Wikipedia