[lovich]

That sounds like you're arguing that you want the ability to continue avoiding taxes by not letting the IRS know the whole truth. That's fine, but if I have to pick one entity to extract money from me id rather it go to the government which at least has a tiny chance of benefiting me rather than going to a private company who has no reason to do anything to benefit me

[deelowe]

Odd. The majority of the things I consider crucial to keeping my current standard of living comes from private entities.

That said, pretending the IRS doesn't already know what taxes to collect from you is definitely naive.

[lovich]

The majority of things I Co Sider crucial to keeping my current standard of living comes from private entities as well but that set of private entities is not the same as all private entities.

If my choices were to pay the tax man directly or pay a third party to calculate my tax for me because it's too complicated to do myself in part because of that third entities lobbying, then I am always going to choose to cut out the middle man

Also I agree the the IRS can figure out the taxes you'd need to pay if they ever cared to look at you, but I was responding to the parent comment implying that they shouldn't get more information so that they could go outside the regulations