[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         IRS HAS A QUOTA SYSTEM

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, according to news reports, the IRS has a 
quota system. IRS agents got bonuses for ripping off taxpayers. And 
many times taxpayers settled their cases even though they were 
innocent.
  What is so shocking about all that? The American people have known 
this for years, and the American people have been telling us the IRS is 
incompetent, the IRS is arrogant, the IRS has abused their powers. It 
has gotten so bad the IRS is even above the law.
  That is right, in America the accuser has the burden of proof, but 
not in a civil tax case. The IRS accuses, the taxpayer must prove their 
case. Beam me up.
  Let me say this. There can be no true reform in American tax law 
without changing the burden of proof. It is time to handcuff them to a 
chain link fence and flog them with their own hefty Tax Code.
  I yield back their unauthorized seizures and excessive penalties.

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