“IRS commissioner indicates AI will play growing role in future tax collection”
April 23, 2024
“You can’t spell Internal Revenue Service without AI, and its commissioner, Danny Werfel, offered a vision this week for how the tax collecting agency intends to use artificial intelligence in the not-too-distant future.
Werfel, in remarks made April 17 at UiPath on Tour: Public Sector Event in Washington, D.C., outlined two kinds AI uses the IRS is exploring: virtual chatbots that assist and benefit tax-paying citizens and AI tools IRS agents can use to identify potential tax cheats…”
You know what I think? The IRS job is to make it as hard as possible for citizens to pay their taxes? Why, so they can steal from you. Late payment? That’s an extra fee. Make no mistake AI will be used in a way to make it harder to contact the IRS. Mark my words. Write it down. Bookmark this page. You’ll see as clear as day after the AI systems are implemented.
Of course they’ll “fix” the problem once tax evasion explodes. The system will be broken but just good enough to disincentivise tax evasion while collecting maximum fees.