Please don’t leave! Connecticut tax agency keeps close watch on state’s super-rich – They are correctly aware that many victims of financial rape will eventually move to lower tax areas, such as down here in tax free Florida.

Remember When Taxes Used to Cause Revolutions? – Ah, the good old days, when people didn’t just bend over and allow the various levels of government to have their way with them.  It’s been quite a while since the Howard Jarvis led property tax revolt of Proposition 13 in California in 1978.  We need more of that kind of spirit.

Johnson asks how 80,000 ‘lost’ Lerner emails were recovered by IRS watchdog – The IRS coverup continues.

Is the IRS’s budget problems motivating them to outright steal money from taxpayers?
Small business owners forced to battle IRS over seized bank accounts – This is actually part of the insane and completely unconstitutional “War On Drugs” that allows law enforcement agencies to literally steal money and assets from people on the basis of mere suspicion of drug involvement. It tosses out the normal “Innocent until proven guilty” aspect of our legal system.
However, in the cases cited in this article, it appears that people are bringing this problem onto themselves by trying to avoid the filing of IRS Form 8300 for large cash transactions by obviously breaking them up into amounts just below the $10,000 threshold.  It makes them appear to be hiding something nefarious and is like waving a red flag for IRS to come and hassle them.  If the money is legitimately theirs and they can show that it all came from legal sources, they shouldn’t be afraid to just deposit the full amounts and have the 8300 forms filed.

For some reason, I’m still having a hard time feeling sorry for IRS’s financial problems when we see stories like these.

‘Amnesty Bonuses’ in Tax Code: Illegal Immigrants to Receive Earned Income Tax Credit

IRS knowingly rehired tax cheats, other employees with ‘performance’ issues

The blind leading the blind...

IRS Seeks 9,000 New Employees as It Prepares to Enforce Obamacare

IRS Begging for more money for operations:

IRS Chief: “We Still Have Applications That Were Running When JFK Was President” – We’re bound to see more and more stories such as this, under the IRS’s PR campaign to raise the public’s sympathy level to fork over more dough.

Where could IRS possibly find extra money?

IRS offers extra tax refunds to illegal immigrants granted amnesty by Obama

‘Tis the Season:

Thieves Targeting Mailboxes For W-2s, So They Can Steal Tax Refunds – Just as scumbag crooks exploit the Christmas season to steal gifts from vehicles, they ransack mailboxes for items that can be financially rewarding for them.

when they spend what they have like this.

IRS Has Active Contract For MILLIONS With Company HHS FIRED Over Botched Healthcare.gov

According to this recent IRS memo regarding budget cutbacks, some of the consequences don’t seem too bad.

Fewer audit and collection cases. Reduced staffing in enforcement will result in at least

46,000 fewer individual and business audit closures and more than 280,000 fewer Auto-

mated Collection System and Field Collection case closures.

Because the IRS has long been  statutorily exempt from recognizing the normal Bill of Rights that we are all supposed to enjoy in every other aspect of our lives in the USA, they had to concoct their own special Taxpayer Bill of Rights to take the place of the “ancient” one from 1789.  IRS just posted an update on their Bill of Rights on their Tax Tips page and in emails to practitioners.

After receiving this latest message from IRS, I thought it would be a good idea to reflect on how well IRS has performed in living up to their proclaimed rights for taxpayers, especially in light of the crimes committed by Lois Lerner and her gang, as well as the ensuing cover-ups, that continue to this day.

Following is just the list of the titles of our rights as taxpayers according to IRS. The more descriptive details of what these mean can be found on their website.

1. The Right to Be Informed

2.  The Right to Quality Service

3.  The Right to Pay No More than the Correct Amount of Tax

4.  The Right to Challenge the IRS’s Position and Be Heard

5.  The Right to Appeal an IRS Decision in an Independent Forum

6.  The Right to Finality

7.  The Right to Privacy

8.  The Right to Confidentiality

9.  The Right to Retain Representation

10.  The Right to a Fair and Just Tax System

I would rate IRS fairly low on complying with many of these so-called rights.  The ongoing cover-ups of the Lois Lerner Gang’s crimes pretty much put the kibosh on Rights numbers 1, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10.  The fact that her behavior has not been punished shows that these rights, while sounding so great, are just fairy tales and are actually fairly meaningless in real life application.

Or maybe it’s just a case of the IRS’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights only applying to certain parties and is null and void for others, such as.…

It’s official: IRS employees biased against conservatives   

 

GOP report: Top IRS official considered admitting targeting before 2012 election — but didn’t