There has been a lot of media coverage of the IRS’s Publication 17 tax guide mention of the fact that illegal income is required to be reported on income tax returns. This isn’t anything new – remember Al Capone? – but is getting a lot of attention due to the widespread smash and grab gangs hitting stores all around the country.

It didn’t take long for self identified Rogue Cartoonist Ben Garrison of Grrr Graphics to come up with a great illustration of this.

It’s not bed enough that such IRS miscreants as Lois Lerner and John Koskinen have never faced any legal consequences for their blatant illegal activities while working at the IRS, there is this news item that IRS is rehiring employees who had been fired for criminal actions while working for IRS.

IRS Rehired Employees That Falsified Documents, Had Unauthorized Access to Taxpayer Information 

We all know that IRS has been suffering from low manpower due to attrition and budget restrictions, but are they this desperate for worker bees that they ignore and excuse prior criminal actions? What message does this send to other IRS employees, the tax practitioner community, as well as the American TaxPayers?  It is nothing less than  insane.

Update: Rush Limbaugh discussed this issue in his Morning Update on 8/7/17.

Can the top brass at IRS pull the agency’s reputation for corruption out of the hole they dug themselves into?  Punishing the lawbreakers we already know about would surely be a good start.  The fact that Lois Lerner and John Koskinen have yet to suffer any repercussions from their flagrant violations of the law makes it difficult to trust the Service’s desire to rehabilitate the taxpayers’ trust in them.

Bribery: New Documents Show IRS Targeting Scandal Was More Expansive

GOP calls for IRS Commissioner Koskinen to be fired

Now that there is a new occupant in the White House, there is a tendency not to want to dwell on the misdeeds of the previous tenants, such as the many criminal acts of the Clinton Organized Crime Family.  To consider those unpunished acts as water under the bridge and not worth pursuing at this time sends a dangerous message to the public and undermines our faith in the fairness of the laws we are all supposed to obey and live under.

This also applies to the unpunished criminal acts by various IRS employees, such as Lois Lerner and  Commissioner John Koskinen, who used this all too powerful government agency to harass political opponents of the bHo Regime and then blatantly committed perjury when they testified about it before Congress. 

We the people, as lowly taxpayers and servants of our IRS masters, are required to reveal to them every tiny detail of our personal finances under the presumption of a level of fairness, privacy and confidentiality that we can’t reasonably expect any more, as long as we know that nobody at IRS has been punished for their crimes.  We do need to keep the pressure on our rulers in DC to continue to pursue real justice, including dismissal, prosecution and prison time for the lawbreakers inside the IRS so that we can trust that all too powerful agency. 

There are a lot of good, honest people working at IRS.  I would hope that they would do everything they can to help clean house of the miscreants who have given them such a bad reputation.  Firing the perjuring Commissioner would be a good place to start so that everyone could see that such crimes will no longer be tolerated. 

Here’s a good look at this issue from the American Spectator:

Who Will Hold the IRS Accountable?

There has been a lot of press coverage about the scumbags who call or write to people, impersonating IRS agents and demanding payments of fictitious tax debts.  We have received plenty of those communications, as have some of our clients.   So far, nobody that we know has fallen victim to these sleazebags.  However, it appears that many people have forked over some serious amounts of money to those a-holes.

When I receive a scam email from an IRS imposter, I forward the entire email, including any attachments, to the IRS’s special email address, phishing@irs.gov.  Some times I receive an acknowledgement back from IRS, and some times, nothing back.  What we never receive back are details of how well they are doing at tracking down, stopping and prosecuting those criminals. 

Every so often, a story pops up in the press about the progress against the scammers, such as this in USA Today.

Feds charge 56 in fraud scheme that siphoned $300M from 15,000 victims

With the ease of setting up these kinds of scams, it would be foolish to let our guard down just because these particular gangs have been caught.  For every internet criminal who is nabbed, dozens more pop up to take his/her place.

It is interesting to scroll through the actual indictment of these crooks.  Most of the people named are in India, so who knows how many of them the USA can actually catch and prosecute.  There are a fair number of names with USA locations, including several from here in Florida. Hopefully, they are not donors to Hitlery, the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, or the DemonRat Party so they can be prosecuted and severely punished.  

and it will get a hundred times worse if the Clinton Crime Family gets back into the White House.   

Federal court finds IRS may still be targeting conservatives