The tax code is, as the article points out over 2,600 hundred pages but as is also explained that's not the half of it, literally. Because the IRS like all regulatory agencies has defacto law making authority and they use it! Another thread could be started about that whole injustice but this post is about the size of the tax code.
If you think about it how many pages do you really need? Five, ten, certainly no more that 50?
The tax concept is simple. It's a graduated income tax. This is your income. These are the rates it's taxed at. Define income , your done. Instead we have thousands of pages of exceptions. Who the hell does that? One rule followed by thousands of pages of exceptions.? Either the rule doesn't work or it isn't supposed to. It could be this simple. Other than exspenses incurred directly for your job/business nothing else is decuctible and there are no credits. It could be a bit more complex but not to the tune of thousands of pages. In fact, you could drop the entire corporate section because corporate income tax is mental masturabtion because it apparently turns on certain voters who don't realize that corporate income taxes are paid by consumers and are devastating to our economy.
I usually refer to it as the control code because of the way it is used to control our financial behavior. However the rules also serve to facilitate the purchase and sale of influence.
So whay do we put up with this bull$#@!?
https://taxfoundation.org/how-many-w...:~:text=Andrew Grossman%2C the legislation counsel for the Joint,70%2C000 pages%2C countering that it’s “only” 2%2C600 pages.