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Cutting a Deal With the IRS Has Grown Taxing

Negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service to reduce your tax bill has never been easy, and lately it has gotten even harder. As the IRS increasingly focuses on collecting more of the taxes it is owed, options that allow taxpayers to write off or substantially pare their tax bills have become a harder row to hoe, [...]

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/tax
 

Some tax deductions are aimed at individuals; many are directed to businesses. The complicated maze of tax deductions that Congress has instituted over the past 70 years has contributed to the view that the tax code in the United States needs to be completely redone in a simpler fashion.