re: Surprise! The IRS Lied About Who Those 80,000 New Agents Would Target

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You still have payroll tax that many businesses get behind on and would also get behind on paying the consumption tax.

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Ive never worked somewhere they were behind on their payroll taxes and sales tax, but ive never worked for a Democrat.


The biggest abusers of the payroll tax are federal contractors.

Also healthcare is a big abuser of this. Like smaller operations, dentist's offices etc...



If they never go after the business that doesn't pay, then what? They don't assess penalties in a timely manner then dont file liens. And this goes back to the 90s.

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Although the majority of
businesses and individuals voluntarily comply with the nation's tax
laws, many do not. For those that do not, IRS's enforcement programs
collected over $40 billion in taxes from businesses and individuals in
2007. In spite of these efforts, IRS has a significant gap between what
taxpayers should pay and what IRS actually collects. IRS estimates that
the annual net tax gap--the amount of taxes that go unidentified and
uncollected each year--amounts to nearly $300 billion.

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IRS records show that, as of September 30, 2007,
businesses owed over $58 billion in unpaid federal payroll taxes,
including interest and penalties.

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The $58 billion is over a period of years, some companies had 12 years of back taxes. So unpaid payroll taxes is only a small amount of the tax gap.