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Question: Would a Sales Tax eliminate IRS Jobs?

Interested in why people believe this.

I would think adding new taxes, collection points and ways to cheat it would mean you would need more people to collect it. Even if you replaced an income driven system with a consumption based system, you would still need more IRS- because most people have 20 to 50 spending transactions for every income transaction.

So where is the saving?
If sales tax is collected by retailers, what happens when someone running a small business buys a mobile phone, a computer. or even a box of food? Do you charge everyone sales tax or do you have to keep records of business purchases?

Answer: Not likely. To raise the same revenue as the current graduated income tax, a national sales tax would need to be levied at 30% or more. With that high of a tax burden, which would clobber the poor and middle class, black marketing would become a major problem. The IRS would probably have to shift resources from administration and processing to enforcement.

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Question: Is this a scam for seniors?

I just recieved this email with the IRS logo and i would like to know how or who i should report it to. I did not hit the link.

Over 130 million Americans will receive refunds as part of President Bush program to jumpstart
economy. Our records indicate that you are qualified to receive the 2008 Economic Stimulus Refund.
The fastest and easiest way to receive your refund is by direct deposit to your checking/savings account.
Please follow the link and fill out the form and submit before June 28, 2008 to ensure that your refund
will be processed as soon as possible.

Submitting your form on June 28, 2008 or later means that your refund will be delayed due to the volume
of requests we anticipate for the Economic Stimulus Refund.

To access Economic Stimulus Refund, please click here.

Note: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the large amount of e-mails we are sending out or because of the restrictions implemented by your ISP

Answer: Here is where to report the scam e-mail you recieved:

“Recipients of questionable e-mails claiming to come from the IRS should not open any attachments or click on any links contained in the e-mails. Instead, they should forward the e-mails to phishing@irs.gov (follow the instructions).”

“IRS Warns Taxpayers of New E-mail Scams”

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=170894,00.html

How to report phishing, e-mail scams and bogus IRS Web sites
If you receive an e-mail or find a Web site you think is pretending to be the IRS,
Forward the e-mail or Web site URL to the IRS at phishing@irs.gov.
You can forward the message as received or provide the Internet header of the e-mail. The Internet header has additional information to help us locate the sender.
After you forward the e-mail or header information to us, delete the message.

“How to Report and Identify Phishing, E-mail Scams and Bogus IRS Web Sites”

http://www.irs.gov/privacy/article/0,,id=179820,00.html

Scammers use fake IRS logo

Cyber-crooks are using tax season to launch some especially sophisticated scams.

” IRS Refund Notice Scam ” Pay to collect fraud