To Renew America: on Tax Reform


Taxes are too complicated and IRS is too intimidating

I began asking similar questions week after week. The common thread seems to be resentment at the ever-growing complexity of the tax code and its record keeping requirements combined with a sense of rage at the IRS's attitude. The tax code frightens people because they are never truly sure if they have done what they are supposed to do. It now requires a sophisticated level of knowledge just to do the paperwork in order to have your accountant do your taxes. Only the very wealthy can afford bookkeepers to turn records over to the accountant--and of course the wealthy are now so put off by the liberal Democrats' class-warfare attitudes that they are angry about what they pay even if they are less bothered by the paperwork.

Middle-class folks who resent the paperwork & the uncertainty find themselves enraged by the attitude of the IRS. My wife does our taxes. She says the IRS makes unreasonable demands, takes an unreasonable attitude, and has unreasonable power over individual citizens.

Source: Renew America, by Newt Gingrich, p.214-215 Jul 2, 1996

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