claim: "our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every american family."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: the president's tax panel put a price tag on the cost of this and said that it  imposes an extra $140 billion per year--a thousand dollars for every man, woman  and child--in just complying with the tax code. we clearly can do better and not  impose an extra burden on the families of the united states in raising our  revenue.
evidence_2: sep 15, 2012 ... thousands of medical professionals have billed medicare at progressively higher  rates over a decade's time, costing taxpayers at least $11 billion in inflated ...  medicare pays for more than 200 million doctor visits every year, using a series of  five-digit codes (99211-99215) that are supposed to reflect the ...
evidence_3: oct 5, 1999 ... combined with projected flows of $140 billion for money market funds and $30  billion for bond funds, the industry should take in some $300 billion in 1999 ....  each extra one billion dollars of fees extracted from the fund by the manager  results in one billion dollars of reduced returns to the fund shareholders.
evidence_4: apr 20, 2016 ... continuing on, imagine what the reaction of the founding father tax rebels  would be to this: the u.s. regime extracts astronomically more taxes than any  other government on the planet. the irs doesn't just take more from people. it  rakes in trillions more. every single year. a trillion is one thousand billion.
evidence_5: apr 15, 2012 ... we gather our tax forms and various banking information, and spend the  weekend facing a difficult bureaucratic set of forms, hoping we did it all correctly.  or we use a costly tax filing service or software. candidate barack obama  promised to end this nightmare. he said he would “dramatically simplify tax ...