Understanding the $600 Billion Annual Federal Tax Gap

A Time magazine article of March 27, 2013, "The $600 Billion the IRS Can’t Collect ," by Christopher Matthews, suggests that the ...

Fixing the tax gap as part of tax reform

Source: IRS Tax Gap - http://www.irs.gov/uac/The-Tax-Gap How does the net annual tax gap of $382 billion fit into tax reform?  This is a lot...

Tax Gap and Budget Solutions

In California, SB 1185 , the Centralized Intelligence Partnership Act, calls for information sharing and a partnership among various state...

Tax gap, tax-cheating software tools and what to do

Zappers are a device that allows some sales to just not get reported. They are also known as “automated sales suppression devices." An ...

Tax Morale and Compliance

The other day I received an email from Dr. Andreas Peichl, Senior Research Associate with IZA (Institute for the study of labor) in Germany....

New Tax Return Details for 2011 Returns - Closing the Tax Gap

Who wouldn't want to see the $345 billion annual federal tax gap reduced? That's a lot of money! One way to make that happen is to ...

Continuing EITC Problems Contribute to Tax Gap

On February 9, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration ( TIGTA ) released a report on EITC compliance problems. Per TIGTA : ...

The 1099 Drama Continues

The expanded 1099 filing requirement brought about in the March 2010 health care legislation and calls for its repeal are starting (continui...

Tax Gap in Congress

In case you missed, the Washington Post ran a story on 9/9/10 - " Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in back taxes last year, dat...