It's not often you see protestors outside a Treasury-Internal Revenue Service hearing on proposed tax code regulations.

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Six years after this freebie was added to the tax code, the Internal Revenue Service is still tinkering with the details.

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While it's called a grant, the biotech credit is a variation of what Congress has been doing with individuals: Using the tax code and the Internal Revenue Service to deliver benefits it considers socially desirable in the form of refundable tax credits.

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It evidently puts the taxpayer afoul of another one of those weird tax code provisions that make Internal Revenue Service agents rub their hands with glee.

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Under the Methodology Test, as it's known, of the Internal Revenue Code -- of the Internal Revenue Service both of these projects did qualify as educational.

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If the income tax was eliminated, the Internal Revenue Service, as well as thousands of pages of the tax code, would be obsolete.

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However, within our current system, even the Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, Douglas Shulman, admits that he uses a professional tax preparer for his returns because the tax code is too complex.

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