A pre-election tax reprieve?

from a NYTimes editorial:

To avoid looking like Scrooge, the Internal Revenue Service typically lets up around the holidays in its hounding of tax delinquents.

But this month, the indulgence began even before Macy�s was decorated. The Times�s David Cay Johnston reported yesterday that on Oct. 10, the I.R.S. commissioner Mark Everson told his troops to delay tax enforcement in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina � until after the midterm elections and the holiday season.

Until after the elections?

To explain his action, Mr. Everson said that a pre-election reprieve was as routine as the Christmastime hiatus. Four former I.R.S. commissioners interviewed by Mr. Johnston disputed that.

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