This morning, the Treasury and the IRS released the new “tax gap” report. This report is in response to a request from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus that the Treasury produce a plan to reduce the “tax gap” to 10 percent by the year 2017. The most recent estimate of the tax gap, for tax year 2001, was 16 percent. Or, if you prefer the glass to be half full, the U.S has a compliance rate of 84 percent, one of the highest in the world.

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