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...Revenue Enforcement and Protection (REAP) program, a brainstorm of Dukakis's former Commissioner of Revenue Ira A. Jackson '70, was developed in 1983 to alleviate the $300 million deficit the state was facing...
...REAP was a very radical proposal, a comprehensive far-reaching plan that was likely to alienate everyone," said Jackson, former associate dean of the Kennedy School. "Political prognosticators said the plan had a zero political possibilities, but it passed...
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...REAP was designed to collect taxes from evaders and delinquent residents and raise future tax compliance rates. The program offered residents a three-month amnesty to pay the state taxes without being penalized, increased the sentences imposed on long-term tax evasion, implemented the services of private collection agancies, set a fixed interest rate on overdue taxes and improved customer services...
Dukakis predicts that implementing the REAP program nation-wide will yield more than $7 billion a year and $35 billion in the next five years...