Curbing The IRS Is Easy–With A Flat Tax

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been making headlines fairly regularly over the past year, most of them unflattering. From its pursuit of conservative political groups, to missing emails about the agency’s actions and a massive data breach that exposed the information of more than 330,000 taxpayers, the IRS has been struggling to bolster its public image.

Yet recent actions at the IRS suggest that more than a public relations campaign is required to rejuvenate the agency. More specifically, it has been revealed that the IRS is targeting American businesses—big and small—with strong-arm tactics that not only raise questions of legality, but also hamper economic activity.

The IRS’ discretionary enforcement of law with respect to political groups is well-known and forced Lois Lerner to step down. While Lerner was running the division within the IRS that determines tax-exempt status, Tea Party groups struggled to have their status approved and were often subjected to intense examination and questioning.