IRS takes a banker bot step

Business Day: Under pressure from Congress to do more with less, the Internal Revenue Service is planning to increase its reliance on technology and tax preparers. But this push threatens to create a “pay to play” system where the only taxpayers who will receive personalized service are those who can afford to pay for it, the agency’s taxpayer advocate warned.

The taxpayer advocate issued the warning as part of her annual report released on Wednesday.

The I.R.S. has spent the last 18 months developing a long-term strategy that includes the creation of a system of online taxpayer accounts, an expanded role for outside tax preparers and software companies and higher user fees. While the overarching goal is worthy, the taxpayer advocate said, it is troubling that the agency intends “to substantially reduce telephone and face-to-face interaction with taxpayers.”

Kanosians will claim this harms the poor, but it is the Kanosians who have made the system complex with their constant additions to tax law.   But the bot cares no, the rules of taxation are nothing more than a javascript program and that is nothig more than a complete graph database.  So, we are getting to the idea of automatically translatin g Kanosian crap into a Javascript program, and be done with it.  Tax bot, just talk to it with your cash flow statement, properly cheated.  Since California is officially a dictatorship, feel free to cheat on the Swamprats also.