Reducing Tax Compliance Costs and Respecting Taxpayer Rights

The U.S. tax system is monstrously complex and imposes hundreds of billions of dollars in compliance costs annually on the American people. Small businesses are particularly harmed by the complexity of the tax code. Moreover, despite modest improvement over the past three decades, the system still does not adequately protect taxpayer rights. Join us as our panel discusses the magnitude and scope of these problems and what reforms could reduce the deadweight loss of tax compliance costs and enhance the protection of taxpayer rights.