The State should be evil. Privatize audit, bid it out and start the bidding at the company keeping 5% of the additional revenues they bring in from errors and violations.
Cause frankly, I can train a temp to do 20 property tax comparisons an hour and what will the violation rate be?
Just as easy on the vehicle fees on which probably everybody filing a tax return is incorrectly claiming too much deduction.
Make it really easy and profitable, add a $50 processing penalty for each violation.
People will figure out to quit fudging on their taxes really quickly.
I’m evil this way because I’m tired of the chronic screaming for more taxes in the State and the tacit wink and nod to everybody cheating or blithely ignorant to the real deduction. Cash for the nanny, cash for gardener. Deduct the mello-roos. Charitible donations of clothes that aren’t fit to be rags. When you really pay what you owe, you find out you are really taxed.
