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Achieving Meaningful Civil Tax Penalty Reform And Making It Stick, Jeremiah Coder
Achieving Meaningful Civil Tax Penalty Reform And Making It Stick, Jeremiah Coder
Akron Tax Journal
This essay examines the historical use of penalties within the tax code, reviews a number of reports that led to the last round of significant penalty reform legislation, and considers existing problems of penalty administration. Several proposals are outlined to ensure that if and when Congress acts to simplify and revise the penalty regime, the reforms will have lasting impact. Part II covers the growth of penalties in the tax system from its original simple form through its significant expansion to the time that the IRS and Congress worked to cut back the complexity of the civil tax penalty regime …