Tax complexity dooms IRS inevitably. It’s not about resources.
Crook 22, Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board (“The IRS doesn't need more money. America needs a simpler tax code,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2022/08/29/inflation-reduction-act-us-tax-code-compliance-complicated-burden-clive-crook/stories/202208260003)//BB
For decades, whenever Congress has “reformed” the tax code, it has just layered on new complications. The U.S. now has a system that might have been designed to fail, incentivize avoidance, perpetuate a colossal tax gap, and drive taxpayers and IRS officials alike out of their minds. The biggest problem with the IRS is not that it’s been badly managed (though perhaps it has been) or under-resourced (which it undoubtedly has been), but that hyperactive legislators have given it an impossible task. $80 billion won’t come close to putting that right.