[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 144 (Thursday, October 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H9045-H9046]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TAX REFORM

  (Mr. ROYCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROYCE. Madam Speaker, according to the Cato Institute about one-
half of the 10 million correction notices

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sent out each year by the Internal Revenue Service are wrong. They are 
wrong. Yet the IRS has a very unforgiving view when others make 
mistakes. For example, the IRS once fined a taxpayer $46,000 for an 
alleged underpayment of 10 cents.
  That is why I have cosponsored the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act: 
to provide taxpayers new protections and rights to address many of the 
abuses spotlighted in the Senate hearings. Once we provide more 
protection for taxpayers, we must then simplify the current system and 
end the IRS as we presently know it.
  It is my goal, it is the Republican goal, to end overtaxation in 
America. It is my goal to help Americans keep more of the money they 
earn so they can do more for themselves, for their families, and for 
their communities.
  I ask my colleagues to join with me to make it happen, and I ask 
Congress to work with us to make sure Washington wastes less of our 
money and our families are able to keep more of what we earn.

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