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11 Sep 2025, 00:45
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For many years, polls have shown that most American taxpayers fear the fines and late fees that can follow an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit. The move to fashion a friendlier public image for the IRS in order to increase the operating efficiency of the agency may be counterproductive because ____________________.
A. many taxpayers are only concerned with receiving their refund checks
B. a friendlier public image for the IRS will increase voluntary compliance with tax laws
C. the timely collection of taxes could not be maintained if most taxpayers did not have a respectful fear of the IRS
D. fewer taxpayers fear the IRS today than feared it 10 years ago
E. collecting delinquent taxes does not necessarily cost the government more than collecting taxes on time
A. many taxpayers are only concerned with receiving their refund checks
B. a friendlier public image for the IRS will increase voluntary compliance with tax laws
C. the timely collection of taxes could not be maintained if most taxpayers did not have a respectful fear of the IRS
D. fewer taxpayers fear the IRS today than feared it 10 years ago
E. collecting delinquent taxes does not necessarily cost the government more than collecting taxes on time
11 Sep 2025, 22:15
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this one's pretty easy,
A- irrelevant-> doesn't explain why the friendliness is counterproductive.
B- this is a positive outcome for the friendliness. Not really counterproductive.
C- This seems like a good answer-> fear is a motivator & it's giving us the reason why IRS's friendliness could be counterproductive.
D- again, comparison to 10 years ago doesn't explain why it's counterproductive.
E- this seems extra information which is pretty irrelevant and doesn't answer our counterproductive argument.
So the answer is C.
A- irrelevant-> doesn't explain why the friendliness is counterproductive.
B- this is a positive outcome for the friendliness. Not really counterproductive.
C- This seems like a good answer-> fear is a motivator & it's giving us the reason why IRS's friendliness could be counterproductive.
D- again, comparison to 10 years ago doesn't explain why it's counterproductive.
E- this seems extra information which is pretty irrelevant and doesn't answer our counterproductive argument.
So the answer is C.
05 Oct 2025, 10:45
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Official Explanation:
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Step 1: Identify the Question Type
Questions that ask us to fill in a blank in a stimulus are Inference questions, since we must complete the author’s line of reasoning, based on the information given.
Step 2: Untangle the Stimulus
In this stimulus, the author states that the IRS’s attempt to be friendlier in order to increase its operating efficiency may be counterproductive. The author also cites polls indicating that a majority of taxpayers fear the fines and fees accompanying an IRS audit.
Step 3: Predict the Answer
It’s up to us to determine why the IRS being friendlier could compromise its operating efficiency rather than enhance it. Even if we can’t predict the correct inference exactly, seeing the word “counterproductive” should make us look for an answer that shows why the new program will not work.
Step 4: Evaluate the Choices
(C) tells us that in order to ensure the timely collection of taxes, taxpayers need to have some fear of the IRS. If the IRS becomes too friendly and taxpayers no longer fear the IRS, then the timely collection of taxes will suffer. And that of course would defeat the IRS’s stated goal of increasing its operating efficiency. Therefore, (C) is correct. (A) introduces the idea of refund checks, which is far outside the scope and has no bearing on an argument about the IRS being able to collect taxes efficiently. (B) suggests that the IRS wouldn’t have to audit quite as much, since more people will cooperate. This would make the IRS’s plan quite successful, not counterproductive. As for (D), it’s irrelevant whether or not more people feared the IRS 10 years ago. If people still fear the IRS, then becoming friendlier may still be productive. (E) suggests that becoming friendlier wouldn’t necessarily help the IRS save money and efficiency, but it certainly doesn’t suggest that becoming friendlier might cost them anything, either. Choice (C) is correct.
