Cafferty: Should Congress be worried about taxing pimps and sex trafficker

Bozita

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Wed Jun-28-06 02:56 PM
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Cafferty: Should Congress be worried about taxing pimps and sex trafficker

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originalpckelly

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Wed Jun-28-06 02:57 PM
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1. You barely beat me to posting the questions...

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Bozita

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Wed Jun-28-06 03:00 PM
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2. I think I smell a rant coming up shortly

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Wed Jun-28-06 03:21 PM
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3. New York City can't evacuate itself on a Friday night!

Edited on Wed Jun-28-06 03:30 PM by rocknation

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MADem

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Wed Jun-28-06 03:23 PM
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4. There is a DUAL AGENDA at play here

The GOP gubmint wants to HIGHLIGHT the "immorality" issue on the one hand (rile the base) and CLOSE THE TAX GAP on the other, as they need the dough to pay for their war. IRS is stepping up enforcement:

Corrective actions" are "already under way," an IRS official says. The IRS is consolidating the program at its Ogden, Utah, center -- a move that is expected to be completed by Aug. 31 -- and creating a nationwide database of informant claims. That includes routing any tipster claims to the Ogden campus for "control and processing" in an attempt to standardize treatment of claims.

The IRS faces an uphill struggle in combating tax cheating and collecting unpaid taxes. Nobody knows precisely the extent of the problem. But IRS researchers estimate the nation's "tax gap" -- the difference between what taxpayers actually pay and what they should be paying -- is about $290 billion a year, based on data for the 2001 tax year.

Individuals represent by far the biggest part of the tax-gap problem. That is especially so for self-employed workers and others who deal in large amounts of cash and where earnings aren't reported to the government and taxes aren't withheld. Moreover, millions of people who should be filing tax returns aren't doing so.

The IRS acknowledges its tax-gap figures are estimates. Even so, congressional critics say it is clear that the dollar losses are huge and that the government isn't doing nearly enough to reduce the gap. Those concerns have increased in recent years amid rising concern about federal budget deficits.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-irs0626,0,6231329.story?coll=bal-business-headlines

They're counting on revengeful prostitutes to rat the pimps out. It will, likely, get even harder out there for a pimp....

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