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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Illinois Department of Revenue Director Glen
3 Bower has proposed transferring 25 Revenue criminal
4 investigators to patrol riverboats used for riverboat
5 gambling and to replace those Revenue criminal investigators
6 with auditors and computer operators; and
7 WHEREAS, This transfer could compromise investigations of
8 tax fraud and could result in the loss of millions of dollars
9 to the State Treasury; and
10 WHEREAS, A reduction in the number of Revenue criminal
11 investigators could eliminate the fear of getting prosecuted
12 for cheating on taxes, which could encourage some people to
13 cheat on their taxes; and
14 WHEREAS, A reduction in the number of Revenue criminal
15 investigators would make it impossible for the Department of
16 Revenue to investigate the over 5,200,000 individual income
17 tax returns and hundreds of thousands of corporate tax
18 returns filed with the Department of Revenue, the more than
19 243,000 taxpayers registered for sales tax, and the thousands
20 of taxpayers required to file tax returns for thousands of
21 other State and local taxes; and
22 WHEREAS, Excise tax evasion, particularly motor fuel tax
23 evasion, cannot be detected with an audit and can only be
24 detected through proven law enforcement techniques; and
25 WHEREAS, Illinois' proximity to states with lower
26 cigarette taxes makes cigarette smuggling very profitable for
27 tax cheats at the expense of Illinois taxpayers; and
28 WHEREAS, Auditors cannot address the issue of cigarette
29 smuggling; and
30 WHEREAS, Internal Revenue Service information indicates
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1 that for every $1.06 spent on criminal enforcement of tax
2 laws there is a $200 return from voluntary compliance;
3 therefore, be it
4 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
5 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY, that we urge the Illinois
6 Department of Revenue to refrain from transferring any
7 Revenue criminal investigators to patrol riverboats used for
8 riverboat gambling and to refrain from replacing those
9 Revenue criminal investigators with other personnel; and be
10 it further
11 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
12 delivered to Glen Bower and to the Speaker and Minority
13 Leader of the House of Representatives and to the President
14 and Minority Leader of the Senate.