The U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently reported that the so-called "tax gap" for Tax Year 2001 – the difference between what taxpayers should have paid and what they actually paid on a timely basis – came to $345 billion. IRS enforcement activities, coupled with other late payments, recover about $55 billion, leaving a net tax gap of about $290 billion for 2001.

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