Tackling the Tax Gap
- Using tax gap and other data to develop a strategy to address noncompliance with tax requirements;
- Better using whistleblower information to find taxpayers who aren’t fully paying their taxes;
- Providing better customer services (by phone, mail, and online) to help with tax prep; and
- Improving management of information technology systems and investments.
- Enhancing and expanding third-party information reporting (for example, business’s reporting of payments to nonemployees);
- Enhancing electronic filing;
- Expanding IRS’s authority to correct some tax return errors during processing; and
- Regulating paid preparers.
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