NATION AND WORLD
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University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1984
Tax cheaters face stiffer penalties in'84
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service, new muscles toned and computers on-line, is ready and waiting for any of the millions of Americans pressing the midnight tax deadline who hope to beat the system.
Because returns would have been due on a Sunday, the traditional April 15 deadline was stretched by one day and so many people waited until the last minute.
The Internal Revenue Service
estimates that one-fourth of this year's 97 million returns will be filled
Tax officials say some will cheat by understating their income. An increasing number of others will not even file a return, a situation the government is facing with a carrot and stick approach — tougher penalty enforcement coupled with a re-examination of the tax system itself.
With the government scrambling
PUNISHMENT FOR TAX cheateres ranges from financial penalties to prosecution.
The IRS has pilot programs that, in a few years, will fundamentally change the character of the tax collection system.
for every penny in revenue it can turn up, Congress has armed the IRS with the most extensive enforcement and data-collection powers in its history.
No longer will the euphemism of a "voluntary" system be appropriate, officials say, because there will be few ways to escape payment.
The IRS is already using sophisticated mathematical profiles to increase the efficiency of its audits. And, IRS officials emphasize, while
the number of audits has declined in recent years, techniques have improved so much that better results can be achieved with less manpower.
TO BACK UP the claim, officials provide a telling comparison — in 1979 the IRS audited 2.3 million returns and reduced 2.2 billion in taxes considered unpaid.
IRS Commissioner Roscoe Egger said Friday that new computer techniques already have added 11 million taxpayers to the number who will receive extra attention from investigators.
Cab driver celebrates skimpy, tax-free living
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS - While millions of Americans render unto the Internal Revenue Service every year, Amos W. Bruce smiles and pays nothing.
"The trick is to ignore them, work only for cash and don't own anything," says Bruce, who celebrates the conclusion of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Bruce says he hasn't forked over a dime to the IRS in 14 years. He calls himself "the freest person in the world."
Bruce, 59, doesn't hide the fact that
he ignores the country's tax laws. In fact, he brags about it in lectures to groups and television audiences on how to dodge the tax bite.
The IRS is well aware of Bruce, a cab driver with a checkered past that includes convictions for several crimes. It has filed liens claiming Bruce owes $51,000 in back taxes, penalties and interest.
But the bill goes uncollected.
"Since the government gets everything from nothing by usurping the power to create a legal tender, they need nothing from the citizens," says Bruce, who was a self-proclaimed expert safecracker before diverting
his energies to exposing the "fraud" of the U.S. monetary system.
Bruce says he does not own his cab and how much he earns "is none of your damned business." His wife is also one of Bruce's credit cards and has no bank account.
The IHS says Bruce walks free largely because he is small potato
"If a person is skillful enough to leave no trail we can follow and has no assets, we cannot take him to court." Louis district director for the IRS.
"It has to be a very penny-pinching kind of life, without any of the things
in our society — vacations, credit cards — that would get you into trouble," LeBau said. "If you call that winning, I guess he has."
Bruce, a Kansas City native with the fourth-grade education, quotes from the Constitution and cites legal cases in the nature of monetary theory and rebellion.
Citizens don't need to pay income taxes because the dollar, without the backing of precious metals, is worthless, he says.
"Amos thinks he's much more of a thorn in our side than we do." LaBaule said. "We spend very little time working on Amos Bruce."
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Registration bill angers officials in El Salvador
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Interim President Alvaro Magana yesterday refused to take sides in a dispute over the elimination of voter registration lists that has ignited election threats from top election officials.
The bill would outlaw the use of voter registration lists that the elections council argues are an important safeguard to prevent double voting and fraud in the presidential runoff scheduled for May 6.
Angry members of the Central Elections Council warned Saturday that they would resign unless Magana vetosed an elections procedures bill passed Friday by a right-wing coalition in the Salvadoran legislature.
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