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There's always been a statute of limitations on how far they can go back to collect.
However, when the Farm Bill was passed--this last one? the one before?--there was a section in it totally removing the statute of limitations.
IRS said they didn't ask for it, but are following the law. Congress says they don't know who put it in there, and apparently nobody read the whole bill. The president signed it.
I don't agree with the change in law, but the fact that the country is passing laws that they don't even know about is scary.
I have to wander when both parents died and if they had notified and if she was benefitted by estate that then owed the money? I have a feeling there maybe more than we read there all told.
There's always been a statute of limitations on how far they can go back to collect.
However, when the Farm Bill was passed--this last one? the one before?--there was a section in it totally removing the statute of limitations.
IRS said they didn't ask for it, but are following the law. Congress says they don't know who put it in there, and apparently nobody read the whole bill. The president signed it.
I don't agree with the change in law, but the fact that the country is passing laws that they don't even know about is scary.
Indeed. They are too busy sniping back and forth to even read what they are voting on. I worked on The Hill years ago and it was enough to make me want to let everybody know what was REALLY going on.
I have to wander when both parents died and if they had notified and if she was benefitted by estate that then owed the money? I have a feeling there maybe more than we read there all told.
I am not sure in this article's situation, but have recently read that a lot of the overpayments happen when a child is due a death benefit due to a parent, overpaid that benefit, and now "owes" it back. Generally, the payment was issued to a guardian on behalf of the minor child. Any notification of debt back in the day likely went to the guardian as well.
I have heard of this happening overseas in the case of a foreign government trying to collect a tax debt from someone's inheritance years after the original person died and the inheritance was gone already.
We need to stop the insanity of this madness. If this is true that it was removed from the latest farm bill and no one will admit to putting it in there. The person who did this should be fired. Just absolutely disgusting and this is making my blood boil right now.
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