Private tax practitioners, however, say a bigger problem is that the IRS simply hasn't gotten the message Congress sent--that it wants offer standards liberalized and special consideration given to taxpayers caught in unfair situations--such as employees taxed on phantom stock option profits or ordinary folk victimized by slick promoters.
However, there are those of us who will say aloud what many development practitioners will whisper when no one is around to overhear them: the private sector is the only truly sustainable source of economic growth.