From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise:

Hoffman, a certified public accountant who is the Conservative Party candidate for New York’s 23rd Congressional District seat, called Thursday for replacing the current U.S. income tax with a flat tax. The move would greatly simplify the tax code, allowing people who are intimidated by the existing complex laws governing taxes to avoid having to pay professionals to prepare their tax returns, he said during a press conference across the street from the federal building in Syracuse, the home to the local office of the Internal Revenue Service.
“The tax code that we have is so complex. … It’s basically corrupt,” said Hoffman, who estimated that roughly half the business done by his accounting firm is helping taxpayers deal with the IRS. “We need a flat tax system in the United States.”