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\"businesspeople<\/a>want to know exactly where your tax dollars go? want to vote on it?
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by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
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here\u2019s an idea: taxpayers should get a receipt so they can see what they\u2019re paying for.<\/p>\n

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actually, that\u2019s already a thing, and it\u2019s been in the internal revenue code since 1990.
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\nin accordance with irc \u00a7 7523, the instructions for forms 1040, 1040a and 1040ez proffer crude pie charts showing the relative sizes of major budget categories and major income categories. the 2017 1040 even offered two graphs with data from the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n

but is that enough?<\/p>\n

the national tax advocate, who works independently within the internal revenue service as a kind of ombudsman, says that the irs could do better and that doing better \u2013 really just a little better \u2013 could make taxpayers more willing to pay what they owe.<\/p>\n

pies online<\/strong><\/p>\n

one area for improvement would recognize that times have changed. back in 1990, virtually all taxpayers used a hardcopy instruction manual to file a hardcopy return. that manual displayed a federal budget pie chart that was hard to miss.<\/p>\n

today, nearly 90 percent of individual tax returns are filed electronically. dealing with the process online, most taxpayers never see the budgetary illustration.<\/p>\n

moving the graph to prominence on the electronic filing webpage would mean more than a change of medium. it would open the possibility of interactive information. that interaction could give taxpayers a better sense of participation and a better sense of where their money goes. it could also give stakeholders and interest groups a better sense of taxpayer preferences. participation and expression of preference might go far to improve taxpayer morale. and better morale means better compliance.<\/p>\n

here are some ideas from the nta, with some extrapolation from 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.<\/p>\n

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with a click-click here and the click-click there, the basic pie chart could be unfolded to reveal more details about the federal budget. the vague one-fifth of the pie that refers to \u201csocial programs\u201d could be broken down into the specifics of food stamps, welfare, health insurance and whatever else falls within that category. a taxpayer could find out whether state department diplomacy is covered under the one-quarter that is \u201cnational defense, veterans and foreign affairs\u201d or the 2 percent that includes \u201claw enforcement and general government.\u201d<\/p>\n

without much effort, the breakdown could get fascinatingly granular. what taxpayer could fail to follow the destiny of his or her tax dollars?<\/p>\n

personalized information<\/strong><\/p>\n

irs or third-party software could readily analyze an individual\u2019s tax return to compute and display marginal tax rate, effective tax rate, tax benefits claimed and other perspectives on that specific return. software could even break down and distribute the tax bill to show how many dollars will go to each category of the budget.<\/p>\n

again, the breakdown could be extremely granular. what taxpayer wouldn\u2019t like to know what portion of an f-35 he or she owns, how many people he or she has given food stamps to, and how many pennies went into space exploration? one important category: how much of the individual\u2019s tax bill goes to cover what tax dodgers didn\u2019t pay in the previous year.<\/p>\n

voting with taxes<\/strong><\/p>\n

the interactive capability of the internet would allow taxpayers to voice their opinions on how they would prefer that their tax dollars be spent. the preferences would be hypothetical and non-binding, of course, and cutting or increasing taxes would not be an option. but congress would surely be interested to know how many people would like to tweak some revenues from one line item to another. the harvest of data could allow congress to analyze not only the national mood but the preferences of various income classes, geographic areas and other demographic groups.<\/p>\n

this aggregated data would be public information \u2013 one more thing for americans to argue about!<\/p>\n

taxpayer morale<\/strong><\/p>\n

the idea behind these ideas, the nta says, is that taxpayer morale will be higher if taxpayers know what they\u2019re paying for. the more they know, they more willing they will be cough up what they owe. (one can see, however, that the opposite might be true.) and the more one feels that one has some input into the distribution of one\u2019s hard-earned cash, the more likely one is to pay all that one owes.<\/p>\n

while the irs could probably accomplish all of these ideas if it wanted to (and had the budget to), it will probably take an act of congress to incorporate the ideas into the tax code. toward that end, the nta has recommended amending irc \u00a7 7523 as follows:<\/p>\n