Quick List of My Proposed Changes to the Tax Code

2011-01-06T14:45:00.000-08:00

This week, the National Taxpayer Advocate launched a suggestion box where taxpayers can offer their ideas for reforming the tax system.

“There has been near universal agreement for years that the tax code is broken and needs to be fixed,” National Taxpayer Advocate Nine E. Olson said in a statement announcing her annual report to Congress “Yet no broad-based attempt to reform the tax code has been made.”

You can submit your suggestions to the National Taxpayer Advocate at http://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/Home/Contact-Us

Here's my list of changes I'd like to see in the current tax code:

1. Eliminate all itemized deductions
2. Eliminate all individual and corporate tax credits
3. Double the current standard deduction and quadruple exemption amounts (adjust annually for inflation)
4. Make current individual rates permanent (adjust annually for inflation)
5. Permanently repeal estate tax
6. Make health insurance benefits a fully taxable employer-paid benefit reportable on W-2.
7. Increase health savings account tax deduction amount
8. Repeal provision requiring all taxpayers to acquire health care in 2014.
9. Lower top corporate tax rate to 25%
10. Add permanent annual inflation adjustment to alternative minimum tax exemption amount.
11. Increase retirement savings contributions limits

What would you like to see change?

The Taxx Man

Quick List of My Proposed Changes to the Tax Code