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LOL! Easy to say that until you have been questioned or audited by the IRS. They would have everything you own and you don't have the money to fight them. Remember they have an unlimited supply of our tax dollars to fight you.
My husband was audited by the IRS and they ended up giving him a check for over $9,000. Not only that they tagged his account so he couldn't get audited again in the future for the same thing they did that time. You give them what they want in the way of records, play straight with the system to begin with, and it doesn't have to turn out bad with the IRS.
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I haven't given this much thought (or thought it out) but OUR tax dollars are supposed to benefit US yet they seem to benefit foreign countries, polititcians and big corporations more while our roads, bridges, schools all need attention. Why is so much of our tax dollars going to the feds when the majority is wasted? Shouldn't the states keep more if not all and take care of their own states?
I haven't given this much thought (or thought it out) but OUR tax dollars are supposed to benefit US yet they seem to benefit foreign countries, polititcians and big corporations more while our roads, bridges, schools all need attention. Why is so much of our tax dollars going to the feds when the majority is wasted? Shouldn't the states keep more if not all and take care of their own states?
Interesting topic you have there DCSLDCD. I think that you are on to something. I know public schools definitely need help. My daughters 3rd grade teacher is bouncing between 2 ways to teach math and about 7 other subjects in 7 1/2 hours. To me this is ludicrous. Luckily my daughter is able to keep up. Others in the class cannot. How can we pass students that cannot keep up, just to keep the money flowing into the school? I would love it if you started a discussion of this. Sorry for the interrupt.
My husband was audited by the IRS and they ended up giving him a check for over $9,000. You give them what they want in the way of records, pay straight with the system to begin with, and it doesn't have to turn out bad with the IRS. Not only that they tagged his account so he couldn't get audited again in the future for the same thing they did that time.
I agree they are workable when everything is provided. The problem is when you have posibly moved and not got their notice. they rule agaist you and grab all your assets. It takes sometimes years to resolve it. OR some illegal immigrant is working under your stoled SS# and the IRS hands you a bill for all the back taxes. Again it takes years to resolve it, if ever. Again the IRS may grab all your assets until resolved.
I get audited regularly for our business but it usually goes like clockwork.
Now here is a story of how far the IRS will go
OMAHA, Neb. - The Internal Revenue Service will go to almost any lengths to retrieve back taxes. In a case against an Iranian immigrant, federal officials are considering following the man into the grave.
The U.S. attorney's office says it might ask to exhume the body of Ehsanolla Motaghed just to make sure he's dead. Motaghed apparently died June 9 without paying $156,000 in back taxes.
Interesting topic you have there DCSLDCD. I think that you are on to something. I know public schools definitely need help. My daughters 3rd grade teacher is bouncing between 2 ways to teach math and about 7 other subjects in 7 1/2 hours. To me this is ludicrous. Luckily my daughter is able to keep up. Others in the class cannot. How can we pass students that cannot keep up, just to keep the money flowing into the school? I would love it if you started a discussion of this. Sorry for the interrupt.
I would love to but I have not really thought it out and I have a meeting tonight. There is SO much waste in the federal government it has to be a better way to keep tax dollar within a state.
Definitely abolish government, too, since taxes pay for goverment workers and stuff. Also the military, who keep us from harm, since taxes pay for them. And highways and social service programs. And health programs. And cops, don't need cops, get your own gun. And courts, because we can just drive over our rotten, gang infested highways, steal the precious juice and shoot those who get in our way.
You really show your ignorance when you write something sarcastic like that. First local taxes pay for most of everything you just mentioned there. Gas tax pays for the roads; either way, does it really cost that much for some asphalt? Just look at our dilapidated infrastructure, crime ridden inner cities and failed foreign it's obvious they aren't spending the money on roads, police and national security.
We didn't even have an income tax until ~1913 and it was voluntary. How do you think we went through the industrial revolution without one?!?!?
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You really show your ignorance when you write something sarcastic like that. First local taxes pay for most of everything you just mentioned there. Gas tax pays for the roads; either way, does it really cost that much for some asphalt? Just look at our dilapidated infrastructure, crime ridden inner cities and failed foreign it's obvious they aren't spending the money on roads, police and national security.
We didn't even have an income tax until ~1913 and it was voluntary. How do you think we went through the industrial revolution without one?!?!?
I KNOW they aren't spending anything on security or foreign! Look at our national defence bill! It is so tiny compared to other countries! THAT SUCKS. Why do you think the Iraq war is so CHEAP? ? ? And our local taxes beng paid to maintain these federal highways? NOT.. It's Not being used for local highways EITEHR according to you!!!! I hear you BROTHER> KEEP preaching the Good fight!!!1111 Only someone showing TRUE ignorance could say that local taxes pay are being used for infrastrcuture and then in the same breath say it is not being used for infrastructure!!!! TELL ME MORE about these MORANS>
In recent years, [the Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)] has investigated roughly 900 threats made against IRS employees annually. In 2009, that number climbed above 1,000.
There is a history of violence directed at IRS employees, and IRS facilities in Austin have been targeted in the past. In June 2008, a separate Austin IRS building received a letter including white powder and a phony anthrax threat. John Barker of Kansas was convicted of mailing the threatening letter and sentenced to one year in prison.
Charles Ray Polk was apprehended in 1995 after trying to purchase a machine gun from an undercover police officer, and sentenced to 75 years in prison for plotting to blow up an Austin IRS building.
Just two years ago, congress gave TIGTA the authority to send armed escorts to accompany IRS officials paying visits to taxpayers deemed "potentially dangerous."
Considering all the threats, destruction of lives and actual violence they've committed against people, I have no sympathy...one government agency you could never pay me to work for. Too evil.
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Wrong.
But yeah, I do agree with that. ABOLISH the garbage IRS and instead we should raise sales tax in all the states. That way YOU can control how much you pay up to a point instead of some IRS monster raping you every time you get paid.
I agree. We do need to abolish the IRS and go to a flat tax system. I'm on unemployment but apparently, my employer did not take out enough in taxes so I'm going to have to owe 3,000. I'm upset but would never desire to have harm befall those who work for the IRS. They are just folks trying to earn a living. I just think it's time for the IRS to be abolished once and for all.
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