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Tax Administration: Alternative Strategies to Obtain Compliance Data

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 26, 1996
Report No. GGD-96-89
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Summary:

In October 1995, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decided to postpone indefinitely the 1994 Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program because of budget concerns. In addition, Congress, taxpayer groups, paid preparers, and others exerted considerable pressure to cancel the program because of its cost to and burden on taxpayers. For more than 30 years, this program has been IRS' primary means for gathering comprehensive and reliable taxpayer compliance data. IRS has used the data to identify areas in which tax law needs to be changed to improve voluntary compliance and to estimate the tax gap and its components. This report determines the effects on IRS' compliance programs of postponing the 1994 Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program and identifies potential short- and long-term alternatives to the planned Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program for collecting these data.

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