T here is little reason to expect much improvement.
The management at the IRS hasn't improved since 1993, and the tax code certainly isn't any simpler. If you look beyond the press release, Treasury's five point plan is almost completely meaningless. The Treasury Department would have us believe that we can fix the problems at the IRS by making permanent a temporary board and creating a new advisory committee at the Treasury Department. And while the Treasury Department pays lip service to simplifying the tax code, the Clinton administration has submitted a budget that includes dozens of tax increases that will raise virtually no revenue, but merely serve to further complicate the tax law. T here is a way to dramatically simplify the tax law.