And its been a while since we didnt have any the irs is going to become increasingly dysfunctional in terms of its basic mission. And my concern is not what do we collect with our own efforts, my concern is at some point the voluntary Tax Compliance system begins to erode. And thats not an on off switch. And you cant wake up one day and say, wow, i didnt know that was going to happen, heres some more money. So part of the reason im so serious about this is that people need to understand the fiveyear implications and ramifications of where were headed. And as ive said in other contexts, i dont want anybody to say we didnt warn you. So you should treat this as your warning that this is a real problem, and its a serious problem, and were beyond the simplicity of saying well, well cut your budget and youll be more efficient. Or well make sure you know what youre doing, you know . Cut our budget again and i know what were going to do. Were going to have fewer people, well have technology th
Work. That leaves us with enforcement Taxpayer Services and i. Tchl. So when you take a cut, weve done the best we can to try to balance that. And our appripriations come in those buktds, so to come extent, were constrained by where the proepuaters put the funding. We have probably 3,000 fewer people answering phone calls right now than we used to have to go along with the 5,000 fewer enforcement people and the 5,000 we put into Identity Theft, so were making a balances decision to try to figure out how do i minimize the negative impact of the cuts im going to take. Depending on how you measure it every revenue officer, criminal investigateor produces somewhere between 100,000 a year each. So we know when we ineffect leave money on the table, you can talk to any agent and theyll tell you we know its not a question of guessing. When we look at returns we start with the returns that have the biggest problems and so, were leaving on the table, tax cuts for tax cheats, there are people who
The comment made earlier about how to that people come i you let every two vet people, you let everybody run command you take the top two vote getters. You can watch the remainder of this event online at www. Cspan. Org. Breaking news out of boston, a jury has reached a verdict in the federal Death Penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. The verdict is an mad is expected to be announced momentarily. Lawyers are gathering in court. We expect to hear comments from the lawyers later on and we will hear comments from you, your reaction to the verdict in just a bit on cspan. Meanwhile, we will take you over to the Brookings Institution in washington. It is one week until tax deadline day. There in your screen is John Koskinen. He will be talking about how his agency is dealing with budget cuts. They are just getting started. Commissioner koskinen half of the book is dedicated to tax codes. There is a quotation from the book that we pulled. It says, the power to tax is the
Hear longterm investment. I remember in the 1970s talking to people in the service about technology and the process is so slow a design is built on rfp and before it is put out and before it is even completed, the technology is obsolete. How can the service make this transition in a careful way . Without getting caught in this trap of holding a system thats already out of date. Dave a couple of things i think the irs has done a remarkable job on technology. Speed matters. I believe we dont have a long time to wait. The irs has demonstrated its ability to manage technology. The best example is cataclysms that were accompanying every discussion right up until the Filing Season vanished when you realize the irs had figured out most of the major problems and had dealt with them again. That said, i think speed matters a lot. This is where partnering between business and government can make a difference both on the service side and i agree with nina and rosemary that not everyone is going to
Hurting the Republican Party. But we also want basic fairness for all americans under obama care. What do you say for the workers, sir . My favorite is identity daily news. The house of turds. The president seized the bully pulpit to say once more we will not negotiate. Let me repeat, nobody gets to hurt our economy and millions of hard working families over a law you dont like. As the president stands firm, republicans continue to turn on each other. Theres so much opposition to that policy, its madness, going absolutely nowhere. I think what were going to do is play out the strategy that i would call thats kind of an oxymoron because its really not a strategy. With the gop in disarray, the rightwing media is working overtime to spin a Government Shutdown. 800,000 federal workers furloughed, okay . Most people wont know that. This is a pinprick. It is not the end of the world. People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government. Maybe im just one of the few p