I don’t know how far I could get with this plan, however, it would be interesting to try it...
If I were being audited I might try to:
Tell them I have done nothing wrong and plead the 5th.
Refuse to comply in any audit activity and tell them that the audit is politically motivated since I am a conservative.
Tell them they have no controlling legal authority over me.
Force them to provide a search warrant as they are violating my 4th Amendment rights to be secure in my person, place etc.
In other words IRS, go jump yourselves.
RE: Tell them I have done nothing wrong and plead the 5th.
And you can tell them that Lois Lerner of the IRS did JUST THAT. And she’s still receiving her 6 figure salary after going on leave.
RE: In other words IRS, go jump yourselves.
You might be able to get away with it temporarily as long as the current hullabaloo is still on FEVER PITCH. But you’ll get your audit yet as soon as the fuss dies down.
We HAVE TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM OR THE STRUCTURE OF THE IRS.
A re-org if you will.
The IRS must be eliminated. It is too disdainful of American mores, and it is too powerful. Neither of those things will change with a new commissioner and whatever is the final disposition of Lois Lerner, and you’ll be back where you are when the fuss dies down.
Of course, the nation must have a revenue collection agency.
Here’s a re-org proposal...(Tell Ted Cruz to work on it ).
As a first cut, perhaps the new agency would have six regional and independent divisions. They would be located in offices around the country, and there would be no single IRS commissioner in Washington.
The six agency heads would report to Congress every six months on the activities of their agencies on penalty of perjury. There would be new offices of ombudsman for each regional agency. The ombudsmen would testify to Congress along with the agency heads every six months as to the number and type of complaints they had received and what had been the disposition of those complaints.
All salaries in the new six agencies would start at 10% below the equivalent levels in the current IRS. There would be no union in the six agencies, because the agencies must represent the interests of the country and that alone.
Something like that.