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James Traficant: “The IRS said last year's 81 percent error rate dropped to only 73 percent this past year. Unbelievable. The Internal…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2001
The IRS said last year's 81 percent error rate dropped to only 73 percent this past year. Unbelievable. The Internal Rectal Service screws up 73 percent of the time and then brags about it. If that is not enough to cause your 1040 to crepitate, IRS agents gave the wrong advice to taxpayers only 50 percent of the time last year, according to an investigation. Beam me up. The IRS does not need more workers; the IRS does not need more money. These stumbling, fumbling, bumbling mistake-prone nincompoops have got to go. I yield back the need to pass the Tauzin-Traficant 15 percent flat retail sales tax, abolish the income tax, and abolish these nincompoops at the IRS.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Criticizing the IRS's error rates and advocating for tax reform.

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