Ok, so there is this $300 billion tax gap and IRS just had a meeting on the hill to discuss this. I have attached a rather boring article about these proceedings.

Basically, the IRS is desperate to close this gap = more audits. Also, it appears that they are under-staffed and plan to continue using third party collection agencies to force tax payers to pay up their due to the government.

This makes me shudder.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/20/pf/taxes/tax_gap_hearing/index.htm?postversion=2007032018