You are at a social event on a typical Friday evening. In these settings, it has been your experience that this is by far the most likely time for complex tax questions and technical discussions to arise. Of course, as expected, someone approaches you and within seconds, makes a belligerent claim that the IRS is unfair, unclear, and basically can do whatever they want to at any time, and there is nothing any of us can do about it. They never give us anything, just tax due, hassle, no credits, nothing.

You think the facts are slightly more complex than this person has characterized.

How would you characterize the IRS and their work? Be sure to discuss what you know about them from this class, including approaches, tools or assumptions they might use, and their overall place in the administrative structure of the government. Be sure to organize your answer to maximize readability.