After nearly 30 years of fighting the IRS, I have finally come to the conclusion that the IRS doesn't change much. Sure, the laws have changed and the technical aspects of enforcing them change, but the overall bureaucratic attitudes of the IRS seem to change very little. With this in mind, today I wanted to write about several recent changes in the federal tax law and how the IRS views them. Offers in Compromise. Through this program, Congress directed the IRS to allow indigent taxpayers to settle tax debts for less than the full amount owed. The IRS, entrenched in opposition to the program, has needless bureaucratic hurdles to prevent us from benefiting from the program. To describe those hurdles I would need the entire business section of this newspaper. Now there is a new hurdle.