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Originally Posted by Xist
The IRS has 106,000 employees and has a budget of $12.5 trillion. You don't think that can be improved?
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If they did, they would be richer than the rest of the world.
IRS FY 2012 Budget Proposal Summary
The IRS budget is around 13.3 billion. Collections (gross) are around 2.3 trillion per annum.
The cost of collection, thus, is potentially less than 1 percent of the total tax revenue.
Figure about 6 billion of that is for standard wages, then about 7 billion for operations.
I don't have statistics for current taxpayers, but that's approximately 1,500 tax returns for every employee... and not all 106,000 of those people will be doing paperwork. Many will be doing legwork, collections, internal audit, legal work, investigation, miscellaneous office work, etcetera... so the ratio of accolunts to accountants is likely much higher, around 3,000 or 5,000 to 1.
Hey... making money costs money.