IRS Ends a Hated Decades-Old Practice ‘Effective Immediately’
Even broken government agencies can be right twice a day — or something to that effect.
For as much general disdain and vitriol as the Internal Revenue Service engenders (and deservedly so), this latest announcement from the agency is actually noteworthy for being a move that most Americans would unequivocally agree with.
On Monday, the IRS put out a news release stating that it would be ending one of its more loathsome practices: Unannounced revenue officer visits.
Now, right off the bat, the IRS makes it clear that unnannounced revenue officer visits can still happen, as they are only ending “most unannounced visits.”
“As part of a larger transformation effort,