Tomorrow, your taxes are due in the United States.

It's a task that most people generally hate, but love to complain about online.

Let me tell you something.

I just paid my taxes today, and never before in my life have I ever wanted to commit tax fraud as badly as I do right now.

I went and paid my taxes today.

I'm going to cry.

And the agency in charge of collecting these taxes, the Internal Revenue Service, isn't very popular either.

Today the IRS went into my bank account and took $700 for me.

How do you actually do your taxes?

The IRS literally will, like they know exactly on the penny how much I made.

They can't send me a paper with just how much I owe.

But taxes are important.

Your income taxes, along with all the other money the government collects, fund most of the federal budget.

These days, though, the IRS is pretty battered. There are fewer people doing tax

enforcement now. It's the very public shrinking of the IRS that we've seen over the past year.

That's our colleague Richard Rubin. He covers tax policy for the Wall Street Journal.

We know that the IRS has fewer people, particularly on auditors, revenue agents, the people

who do the civil tax enforcement, there are fewer of them than there were a year ago,

15 months ago when the Trump administration took office.

And with such a shrunken down IRS, people are feeling like it might be easier to get

away with things than they used to. Tax lawyers saw that directly. They saw cases get dropped.

They saw cases get passed between agents. And taxpayers, you know, read the news and see that,

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