ABOLISHIRS

Internal Revenue Service

Taxation isn’t a service. It’s compulsion with a filing deadline.

Official story

What they claim to do

Collects federal taxes and enforces the tax code to fund government services.

Ground truth

What they actually do

Administers a tax code so complex that Americans spend billions of hours a year complying with it, by the IRS’s own estimates. Researchers analyzing audit data have found low-income filers who claim the Earned Income Tax Credit audited at higher rates than many wealthier taxpayers.

The libertarian case

Every dollar the IRS collects is taken, not asked for, and its power to audit, levy and seize rests on treating every worker as a debtor to the state. End the income tax and the IRS has nothing left to do. Abolish the IRS.

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