{"id":592,"date":"2013-07-16T14:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/?p=592"},"modified":"2013-07-16T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:36:51","slug":"increase-irs-funding-for-fy-2014-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/2013\/07\/16\/increase-irs-funding-for-fy-2014-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase IRS Funding for FY 2014 now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some members of Congress are advocating\u00a0 the IRS budget be cut by $3 billion.\u00a0 Are they irrationally responding to the bad behavior of some members of the IRS or are they insane, stupid, or just plain ignorant?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know but their recommendation is economically illogical.\u00a0 We have a tax gap of $450 billion per year.\u00a0 If half is collected, that substantially decreases our deficit.\u00a0 We only audit 12% of the over $1,000,000 income returns and generate over $4 billion.\u00a0 We only audit 3% of the $200,000 to $1,000,000 returns and generate nearly $3 billion.\u00a0 Each dollar spent on these paper and field audits generates many\u00a0 more additional dollars for the US Treasury.\u00a0 Give the IRS more budget dollars \u00a0in FY 2014 and subsequent years (we estimate $3 billion more) and help solve the deficit problem.\u00a0 Insure everyone pays their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some members of Congress are advocating\u00a0 the IRS budget be cut by $3 billion.\u00a0 Are they irrationally responding to the bad behavior of some members of the IRS or are they insane, stupid, or just plain ignorant?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know but their recommendation is economically illogical.\u00a0 We have a tax gap of $450 billion per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}