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Accountants Agree: The Top Five Ways to Fix the IRS

The United States of Frustration: Schaffer, Zulager, Toye, Devine. (Word cloud: CPA Trendlines Research)

Some suggestions: Burn it down and start over. Abolish the income tax altogether. Privatize it.

By CPA Trendlines Research

If the CPA Trendlines Busy Season Barometer were a thermometer, it would be popping its mercury with responses to “How would you fix the IRS?”

See: IRS Tops List of Busy Season Problems

We’re getting a lot of comments, many of them scorchingly hot. Accountants and tax preparers are not happy with the government agency that their profession depends on more than any other.

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