The IRS at the Breaking Point

National Review via Yahoo ^ | 11/06/2019 | Daniel J Pilla

[DFG]

Anyone who deals with the IRS on a regular basis knows that the agency is in trouble: IRS employees are less able than ever to effectively and efficiently handle their work. The internal problems facing the agency were greatly exacerbated by the 35-day government shutdown that began in late December of last year. But the shutdown is not by any means solely responsible for the agency’s dire situation.

To put all this in better perspective, let me give you pictures of what the agency looked like before the shutdown, and what it has looked like after the shutdown.

What the IRS Faced before the Five-Week Shutdown According to the National Taxpayer Advocate’s 2018 annual report, the shutdown

Could not have come at a worse time for the IRS — facing its first filing season implementing a massive new tax law, with a completely restructured tax form. As I outline below, the IRS is entering the filing season inundated with correspondence, phone calls, and inventories of unresolved prior year audits and identity theft cases.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The Treasury Employees Union wants it that way. They work overtime to catch up. Then, everyone actually works. On regular time, it crawls.

[Rio]

They’ve made tax filing way too complex.

[Perseverando]

Why do your job at regular pay when you can do it for time and a half?

[Mr Rogers]

The IRS is underfunded. If you want to cut FRAUD, it takes money. And there is massive fraud in EITC and child tax credits and education credits.

[donozark]

At one point, the IRS and US Postal Service were the two most heavily unionized entities in America. Says t all...

[donozark]

it..

[AppyPappy]

It’s actually very easy for most people. You take the standard deduction and send it in.

[ClearCase_guy]

Switch to the Fair Tax or other national retail sales tax concept and the need for the IRS diminishes.

[junta]

A friends brother was a super in KC and he retired because he did not have what it took to motivate his women primarily of color to do their jobs. It just don’t pay to be a straight laced white man, it ain’t the 50s anymore.

[Mr. K]

The IRS is “underfunded’???

Are you sure you wouldn’t be more comfortable at DU?

[griswold3]

Lynn Patton witnessed that very same mentality during her stay in NY public housing. During the 8 hour regular time no work was done, they only came out during overtime.

[Mr. K]

THERE IS NOTHING ‘FAIR’ ABOUT THE ‘FAIR TAX’.

Especially their maddening insistence that the ‘tax inclusive’ pricing is normal.

NOT IT’S NOT- AND IT HIDES THE TAX, AND MAKE IT APPEAR TO BE LOWER.

[eyeamok]

If not an organization within the U.S. Department of the Treasury, then what exactly is the IRS?

Answer: The IRS appears to be a collection agency working for foreign banks and operating out of Puerto Rico under color of the Federal Alcohol Administration (“FAA”). But the FAA was promptly declared unconstitutional inside the 50 States by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of U.S. v. Constantine, 296 U.S. 287 (1935), because Prohibition had already been repealed.

In 1998, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit identified a second “Secretary of the Treasury” as a man by the name of Manual Díaz-Saldaña. See the definitions of “Secretary” and “Secretary or his delegate” at 27 CFR 26.11 (formerly 27 CFR 250.11), and the published decision in Used Tire International, Inc. v. Manual Díaz-Saldaña, court docket number 97‑2348, September 11, 1998. Both definitions mention Puerto Rico

When all the evidence is examined objectively, IRS appears to be a money laundry, extortion racket, and conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951 and 1961 et seq. (“RICO”). Think of Puerto RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act); in other words, it is an organized crime syndicate operating under false and fraudulent pretenses. See also the Sherman Act and the Lanham Act.

http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm

[Blood of Tyrants]

Fair Tax. You pay it only when you spend money. Plus everyone with an income below a certain amount gets a refund check every month. This will discourage under the table pay as the employee will not get a refund for unreported income.

[mjp]

reduce giverment spending to only what is required by rational government (protection of natural rights)

then

make paying taxes voluntary

[hal ogen]

Maybe if they got to appropriate work and stopped terrorizing conservatives and other citizens they would accomplish something related to their charge. What a bunch of pathetic slackers waiting for their pensions.

[rockrr]

Yeah, it would be a terrible thing if they all got disgusted and quit...

[Boomer]

Sounds like the IRS needs to be one of those departments that’s considered essential during gov shutdowns so their employees need to show up for work everyday regardless.

No free vacation. Those departments that do shutdown should have to either take a loss on those days off or use vacation days. This is how it works in the real world. Either that or go on unemployment if the gov and employee pays into it.

[beef]

“The IRS at the Breaking Point”

Good. The only way to control this beast and protect the public is to starve it.