In race for Ways & Means Committee chairmanship, Texas Congressman says its ‘Time for America to jettison our too costly, too complex, and too unfair Tax Code.”
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“Why should filing taxes take the same number of hours as all the workers at Wal-Mart, McDonalds and Target will work this year combined?” asked U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, a senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee earlier today.
“That’s crazy. Most American taxpayers don’t want to spend hours upon hours organizing forms and receipts just to pay their taxes. They’d rather spend that time playing ball with their kids or starting a small business.”
April 15th is both a boom day for the U.S. Treasury, and the single most hated day of the year for American families.
– Cong. Brady looks at a few key reasons why.
“Right now there are over 206 pages of instructions for the 1040 form, when the entire tax code shouldn’t be that long,” said Brady.
“When over 90% of returns are done by professionals or tax software, that should be a wake-up call that our tax code is far too complex.”
- Americans will spend over 6 billion hours of their time on tax compliance this year.
- That’s akin to over 3 million full time employees working year round, according to the IRS National Taxpayer Advocate.
Brady says the House of Representatives and the Ways & Means Committee has been working to shrink America’s bloated tax code, from 4 million words down something every taxpayer can understand.
After you finish your taxes, go to www.KevinBrady.house.gov/TaxReform and share your ideas on how to make this tax code simpler and fairer for all Americans.
“No one wants to work until after Easter just to satisfy their tax burden,” concluded Brady. “There is a better way through real tax reform.”
