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Maybe more people would feel less compelled to cheat on their taxes if the IRS had a different image [April 12]. We see the IRS as the enemy when in fact...
Incentives to cheat are being publicized almost daily: 1) the tax break our Congressmen gave themselves as a reward for having to live in Washington, 2) the President's "working" vacation in the Caribbean, 3) Nancy's costly staff. Is it any wonder that taxpayers feel no guilt when "making an error" in the amount of interest paid on a home mortgage...
...mind is an enchanting thing,/ is an enchanted thing/ like the glaze on a/ katydid-wing/ subdivided by sun/ till the nettings are legion,/ Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti." In short, human intelligence is too intricate to be replicated. When a computer can smile at an enemy, cheat at cards and pray in church all in the same day, then, perhaps, man will know his like. Until then, no machine can touch...
Government officials and academic experts are perhaps most disturbed by the growing conviction of people like these that they have a right to cheat on their taxes. Many people insist that it is all right to cut corners because the tax code favors big corporations and wealthy individuals by granting them lucrative tax shelters and other loopholes. Reports that a giant corporation like General Electric Co. (1981 profits: $1.7 billion) is actually getting a Government refund on past returns add powerful fuel to this resentment. Says Thomas Field, executive director of Tax Analysts and Advocates of Arlington, Va.: "Millions...
...late 30s with an income ranging from $ 12,000 to $35,000. He may have prepared his forms in the past, but he has gone through a divorce, got a new job or had some other experience that altered his tax status. Though not out to cheat the IRS, he wants to know all the legal loopholes. Says Henry Bloch, the company's president: "Our customers believe in paying their fair tax, but they don't want to overpay...