{"id":3155,"date":"2010-01-14T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2010-01-14T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:36:47","slug":"irs-doesn%e2%80%99t-know-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3155\/irs-doesn%e2%80%99t-know-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Doesn\u2019t Know Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner of the IRS doesn\u2019t even do his own taxes.\u00a0\u00a0  After all, the Tax Code is large, incomprehensible and it takes days to prepare a detailed return.<\/p>\n<p>As IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman <a href=\"http:\/\/goingconcern.com\/2010\/01\/irs-commish-doesnt-do-his-own.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">told C-SPAN<\/span><\/a> this weekend, \u201cI\u2019ve used one [tax preparer] for years.\u00a0  I find it convenient.\u00a0  I find the tax code complex so I use a preparer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for those words of hope Commissioner Shulman.\u00a0  If you can\u2019t do your own taxes, maybe it\u2019s time to hold off on the thousands of regulations that the IRS issues every year.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, even members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee use a &#8220;professional&#8221; to complete their tax returns.\u00a0  Nobody in Washington, D.C. appears to know what\u2019s going on with our Tax Code.\u00a0  That\u2019s not surprising at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner of the IRS doesn\u2019t even do his own taxes.\u00a0\u00a0 After all, the Tax Code is large, incomprehensible and it takes days to prepare a detailed return. As IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman told C-SPAN this weekend, \u201cI\u2019ve used one [tax preparer] for years.\u00a0 I find it convenient.\u00a0 I find the tax code complex so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[735,105,71,401],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-irs","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-ways-and-means-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}