WOW - there is so much significance here, and I don’t even think the plaintiffs or their attorneys even realize it.
This was not about the hardships for the tax preparers....the real victor here is the American taxpayer. This would have more or less turned all accountants into IRS agents. We would have effectively LOST OUR ADVOCATE in all of these proceedings. This would have been the end of property rights in a way had it gone the wrong way.
The fish rots from the head down.
Our Founding Fathers would have started shooting by now.
Since the IRS can’t even interpret their own regulations, why should they be licensing anybody?
Republicans could rebrand their postion on go9vernment if they would look at this story and clean out regualtions. Devide the government - again - by committees and then go on tours till they reduce the amount of regulations and thus the “workload” by 30% this will reduce the size of departments then lead to consolidations and again reduce the size ...might take 15 years but looka t how long it has taken to return liberal ideas from Carter to Obambi...30 years.
Over regulation takes a hit,it’s about time.
How about IRS agents get a certificate of competency issued by a private sector testing agency?
Judge James E. Boasberg is an odd creature at best.
Born in San Francisco, his father was part of Sargent Shriver’s Office of Economic Opportunity, a Great Society agency. He received an A.B. from Yale University in 1985, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
Eleanor Holmes Norton recommended Boasberg to fill a judicial vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. On June 17, 2010, President Barack Obama formally nominated Boasberg to the District Court for the District of Columbia.
(Importantly, the D.C. circuit is extremely influential, because they hear all cases involving the federal government. The Supreme Court rarely overturns them.)
Thank You, Judge Boasberg (and I apologize in advance for your lifetime of never-ending audits which is about to commence).