The Flat Tax does not eliminate the IRS

06/11/2013

by Steve Hayes

 

In this time when we are daily seeing more examples of arrogance by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), there is an emerging agreement that there has to be a better way to collect the revenue needed by the government than using the income tax that everyone agrees is too complex, too easily evaded and enforced by an IRS that is out of control. Daily the airwaves are filled with people talking about the IRS scandal and many times the solution they propose is the flat income tax.

The idea of a flat income tax has been discussed for at least 40 years among tax specialists and some in Congress. If you look at the 74,000 pages of incomprehensible Internal Revenue Code (IRC), you believe that there must be a better way and a tax that eliminates this complexity is very appealing. The flat income tax was brought more into public view by Steve Forbes when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000.

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