University Daily Kansan / Monday. April 18, 1988
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IRS tips may help turn tax evaders into payers
By Dayana Yochim
Kansan staff unit
Kansan staff writer
Now that the deadline to file tax returns has passed, Carmen Streeter will have two extra hours on Tuesday nights to do homework
For 11 weeks, Streeter, Pleasantan junior, has volunteered two hours every Tuesday night to help people with their tax returns.
Streeter and three other volunteers from the KU Accounting Club helped people fill out their 1040 E2 and 1040 D2 job applications Indian Center, 1202 Mody Road.
Streeter said that the volunteers became busier as the tax deadline approached and that most mistakes occurred when people were rushed.
Mistakes, whether intentional or unintentional, cost the IRS billions of dollars each year, said an Internal Revenue Service spokesman.
Steve Pyrek, spokesman for the research division of the IRS in washington D.C., estimated that in 1988 he lost $87 billion in uncollected taxes.
Pryek said that each year the IRS estimated the difference between what is voluntarily paid and what should be paid.
"We call this the tax gap." Pyrek said in a telephone interview
The research projections for the $87 billion tax gap have prompted the IRS to spend more money on its
Peggy Hite, KU assistant professor of business, said that she thought the effort to inform taxpayers of those services would help the IRS turn tax cheaters into honest taxavers.
Last summer, Hite surveyed taxpayers to see whether they had cheated on their tax returns within the past five years.
taxpayer services, Pyrek said.
Out of the 200 respondents, she found that 21 percent had cheated.
Hite asked both compilers amon noncompilers if they thought the IRS help programs were an incentive to pay with the rules of filing a tax return.
She said that the compliers already believed that free IRS help encouraged compliance where the non-compliers did not.
For the second part of her survey,
Hite split cheaters into three groums
She sent the first group IRS brochures promoting governmental services, the second received brochures listing the punishment for noncompliance and the third group received nothing.
"Those who received the brochures promoting services had the same response as compliers," Hite said. "There was no change in the other two groups."
The survey results indicated that by emphasizing positive promotions, not penalties, the IRS might recover more uncollected taxes, Hite said.
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