Mr. Daniels wrote: "I am confident that these resources," together with tax simplification and other reforms being studied by the Treasury Department, "will allow the I.R.S. to effectively attack the serious noncompliance problems Treasury has identified".
However, it did not resolve some of the noncompliance problems and did not improve survival.
A previous study described noncompliance problems with antimalarial chemoprophylaxis on deployment [ 4].
Such noncompliance problems are similar to those seen in hospitalized patients and residents of long-term care facilities [ 14, 15].
Cynthia Rand, a health psychologist at Hopkins and co-author of the study, says that many other researchers have identified noncompliance as a problem, but this study breaks any previous records for extent of deceit.
While many recognize task noncompliance as a problem, it has only received a cursory treatment in the pediatric neuroimaging literature.
From point of care testing, it was frequently found that residents were coping with known health problems but unaware of dangerous implications of treatment noncompliance or leaving problems unattended.
"They also gave us some idea of how big the problem of noncompliance actually was, and that the I.R.S. was actually doing something about it," Mr. Streckfus said.
Craig A. Etter, a tax audit lawyer in Tysons Corner, Va., with the law firm Greenberg Traurig, said that "the primary reason for doing one of these audit technique guides is to get auditors in the field to focus on what the I.R.S. national office thinks is a problem with noncompliance".
