Taking money by fiat is obviously profitable, so this is not a particularly noteworthy metric. In fact, it stinks of the same myopic overfinancialization that has contributed to the mess over on Wall St.
If the IRS wants to increase compliance and reduce their workload, the straightforward way is to stop dancing around this illusion that their system is in any way optional, and start creating straightforward prescriptive systems rather than just issuing a myriad of disparate prohibitions with steep penalties for making a mistake. The current philosophy requires the IRS to do the work to interpret all these privately-defined systems, allows rent-seeking companies to nickle and dime captive middle-class taxpayers, and practically begs wealthy people to hire lawyers to come up with novel interpretations to skirt the intent.
If the IRS wants to increase compliance and reduce their workload, the straightforward way is to stop dancing around this illusion that their system is in any way optional, and start creating straightforward prescriptive systems rather than just issuing a myriad of disparate prohibitions with steep penalties for making a mistake. The current philosophy requires the IRS to do the work to interpret all these privately-defined systems, allows rent-seeking companies to nickle and dime captive middle-class taxpayers, and practically begs wealthy people to hire lawyers to come up with novel interpretations to skirt the intent.