Fool Me Once…

By Kleinheider Posted on April 25, 2008 at 6:23 pm

One of the interesting things that came out of yesterday’s iTunes tax revelation was that it was also revealed to a wider audience that the Department of Revenue apparently shares drafts of the “technical corrections bill” with a few good tax attorneys before sending it on to the legislature.

Bill Hobbs, for one, is not depending on one of those lawyers springing a leak again next year like it did this year:

A simple open-records request for copies of the draft should suffice next year to short-circuit the Revenue Department’s plan to craft new tax policy under the watchful eye of only a few hand-picked tax attorneys.

Tax policy proposals should be crafted in out in the open, where the public - who, after all, pay the taxes - can see what is happening.

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