This week, the Internal Revenue Service issued its first “crowdsourcing challenge” to generate ideas from taxpayers on how to improve the process of filing a federal income tax return. The IRS is offering cash prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize to the person who submits the best ideas to “design the taxpayer experience of the future.” The agency is looking for design ideas to better present tax information to make it easier for Americans to perform their taxpaying duties while managing their personal finances.
And where will that cash be coming from, IRS?
That would be cool. 🙂 I do hope they get many thousands of similar suggestions. 🙂
Best idea, however, is to simply ignore them. The more people who decide just not to file at all, the better. Millions already go that way.
The first problem with the IRS suggestion box, however, is that they actually do think Americans have a legitimate “duty” to be robbed and intimidated. Sort of hard to talk to people like that.
“Sort of hard to talk to people like that.”
Well, no. It’s easy to talk to them. It’s easy to talk to your dog, too. Only difference is, you might get an intelligent reaction from your dog.
I meant it wasn’t worth talking to them. 🙂 And you have not met my dog. LOL
It’s a really good thing I don’t mind at all talking to myself. 🙂
How about send everyone home, turn out the lights, turn off the heat, water and air conditioning, sell all of the computer equipment, take down their web pages, close the parking garage, lock the doors, take all the signs off the buildings. Let the PO return all of their mail, including checks, with the notation Addressee Unknown. Where do I go to pick up the $10,000 check??? LOL
There are days I prefer talking to myself!
I guess we are lucky. We are poor enough we haven’t had to file in three years.