It won't generate more revenue, but eliminating theft is an easy way to
prevent losing revenue. See the IRS' claims as to how much is lost to these
thefts. And most of the last 3 checks can be automated. The first 2 can be
completely automated, and the third can be mostly automated with the only
possible step requiring a human being checking out potential mismatches in the
residence or mailing address. You have to create the software once, but after
that it'll continue to work and stop fraud before the money gets out the door
indefinitely. To me this looks like a no-brainer: low to moderate one-time cost,
high ongoing return. You'd have a harder time cost-justifying audits to catch
tax cheats, those are a much higher cost (and an ongoing one at that) for not
much higher a return. And the IRS has no problem cost-justifying audits. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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