Jack Kingston: “just to underscore what the gentleman is saying, when we talk about we need an IRS attitude adjustment, I have a rural…”

“just to underscore what the gentleman is saying, when we talk about we need an IRS attitude adjustment, I have a rural district with a lot of farmers who work with the Soil Conservation Service or the Farm Service Agency, and generally these Federal Government agencies have a cooperative, friendly, help and technical assistance kind of attitude with farmers. Farmers come to them with erosion problems, wetlands problems, questions about applications of fertilizers and so forth, and the Federal Government agents, representing the USDA, are friendly to the farmers. Would it not be nice if we had an IRS who was that way to small businesses? Most of the people I know fear an audit, not because of anything they have done wrong, but because maybe inadvertently they did forget to dot an ``I'' or cross a ``T,'' and that being the case, they are afraid the IRS is going to catch them and fine them, and be excessively ruthless in their treatment of them.”