Comment by jonhohle
2 years ago
20 years ago I was working at Accenture and they were giving tax software to states for “free” including cracking down on delinquent or underpaying entities. By “free” I mean they received a percentage of any additional tax revenue they brought in through their enforcement. The state got additional revenue it would have otherwise not received without any additional cost, possibly cheaper than had they hired full time staff to do the same job since Accenture built for one state and ported to the rest.
It’s not about deliquent payments but auditing fraudulent returns. Particularly for rich people using all sorts of novel ways to hide taxable money, it does require some investigation to dive deep.
That’s the enforcement part.