z 17.1 Taxes

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

United States

• Why doing taxes is so hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQQkzWhMOc This is an episode of Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act. Here he describes how the rich gutted the IRS, privatized tax collection to corporations, and created a system where the rich don't pay taxes because the IRS doesn't have any resources to hold them accountable.