Big Brother Vs. Underfunded Enforcement

July 23, 2014

On July 5, 2014, in an opinion piece entitled “The Real Internal Revenue Scandal,” the editorial board of The New York Times noted that “every dollar spent on internal revenue service enforcement yields $6 in additional revenue.”

I suspect that the SEC would make the same claim, that for every dollar spent on staff attorneys in the Division of Enforcement, the SEC recovers a multiple of that number. [...]

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