November 20, 2007 10:03AM 

# Tax Agency Failures 

By [Chris Edwards](https://www.cato.org/people/chris-edwards) 

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Laptops lost with taxpayer personal information. Sluggish bureaucracy. Massive fraud from tax credit schemes. Tax credits called a “nightmare” of complexity. Thousands of administrative errors and unwarranted penalty notices.

Sounds like the IRS. But it’s [another country](http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/tax/article2908577.ece) with a high-rate, loophole-ridden income tax. The United States is not the only country that needs a flat tax.

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