It has more employees than the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Agency combined. Its budget is a bigger consumer of tax dollars than the Department of Commerce, the Department of State or the Department of the Interior. While there have been examples of improper behavior of the IRS toward honest taxpayers and it is very easy to bash the agency, we shouldn't. For the most part, IRS employees are hard working, dedicated people trying to do the best job they can. Problem is, their agency has grown to a grotesquely burdensome size.
Tax law has become so complicated and arbitrary, no one can understand it.
That includes the government agents whose task it is to enforce the code. The answer is reform. We favor a flat tax. Such a tax would provide one low tax rate for all Americans. There would be no loopholes.