If you hate bureaucrats, shifting from Washington to the states will hardly spell relief. USA Today, May 25, 1995. This expansion of IRS power is supported on the conservative Republican side of the political spectrum as well as among liberal Democrats, and has even been proposed as a means of fulfilling the GOP's Contract With America. Just as a great many people in Washington think that it makes sense to use the military to deliver humanitarian aid, because it is more efficient than the average relief organization, so politicians are enamored of using the IRS to deliver social services. In recent years the IRS has been given the task of collecting student loans and child support payments, garnishing wages, and the like.
Corruption increases because the government is giving away money.
So the government increases its size, power, and ability to intrude into citizens' private financial affairs in order to fight the corruption. Adding more auditors imposes a non-monetary cost that citizens interested in liberty should find unacceptable. The Contract With America is looking more and more like an election-year gimmick. Thereafter, the IRS will act as the collection agent. More insidiously, the IRS really won't 'collect' anything.