Posted on 01/14/2015 12:22:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
With a week to go before tax season opens, taxpayers were already bracing for a potentially “miserable” filing season. It turns out that it could live up to the hype.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Koskinen has advised employees that the budget cuts will result in reduced services to taxpayers. In an email to employees sent earlier today, Commissioner Koskinen advised that “realistically we have no choice but to do less with less.”
What does that mean for taxpayers?
* Identity theft could increase. Despite the need for increased taxpayer protections against identity theft, the implementation of additional measures will be delayed. That’s bad news for taxpayers since, despite the efforts of IRS and other agencies to stem the tide of identity theft, scammers have grown more bold.
TIGTA reported that telephone scammers, posing as IRS representatives, managed to steal more than $5 million from taxpayers last year. And as quickly as the scams are picked up, they change. IRS-Criminal Investigation has responded to what has been termed an “epidemic” of identity theft by ramping up investigations – but with wholesale cuts to IRS, expect those investigations to dip, too.
* Refund delays. It turns out that satirical piece on tax refunds making the rounds might have had some merit after all. According to the Commissioner, taxpayers who file paper tax returns may have to wait an extra week or longer to see their refund. In the email, the Commissioner didn’t specifically address whether delays would affect refunds for taxpayers who e-file, though a few weeks again he refused to say that refunds would not be delayed.
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A 3% cut won’t close anything down.
And this is official notice to the IRS that my payment may be delayed this year, or shut down.
So, it you have a refund due, take it out this year by raising your exemptions or lowering your quarterly filing amount and directing your refund to be applied to taxes this year. F em.
So if you do not get a refund do what the IRS would do, deplete future payments until the balance is covered. Have your work not take out taxes until the IRS debt is paid. The politicized IRS cannot win that fight.
Poking the hornets nest again Obama???...Just go after the average Joe who supports your monsterous crap government through his taxes??? Screwing with his/her tax returns???PUCK YOU GILLIGAN!!!!!
Because the IRS Commissioner has many options to deal with a budget cut, he has the power to minimize or maximize the impact on services to taxpayers.
If services are reduced it will be because the IRS Commissioner directed that to happen, in my opinion.
Yes! Then replace it with open-bid contracts to CPA firms in each state-no more fed agency/employees with access to personal financial info = no more use by politicians of that info to harm political enemies.
My thought too - due to a retirement, they will probably owe me about $1K and I would gladly forfeit it if they would indeed shut down...
Yeah, they "service" us alright, bastards!!
lest we forget, Lois Lerner must be tried convicted and executed for her crimes against the Republic
"do less with less"
Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency's budget were cut, what would it do?
The answer, of course, is that it would cut back on the medications for children. Why? Because that would be what was most likely to get the budget cuts restored. If they cut back on building statues of Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.
The best thing we can do is to make it plainly known citizens know what the trick is, and it will backfire on them.
Flat tax
Go to hell....IRS.
FU
Cut dem pensions!
Were the IRS cut amounts equal to the automatic increases given to them each year under baseline budgeting? If that is the case, it wouldn’t be a cut at all. It would be a failure to add to last years budget amount for the next year. Liberals like to call a failure to increase spending for the next year a “cut.”
ALVIN YORK AND THE IRS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrBWPI1Ctk&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
Slow is an understatement, I am still waiting on $3400 from 2013. I have caught them in lies twice and just yesterday I got a letter stating I had to claim $19.36 in interest income I have earned on the money they are keeping from me. They will get a 2014 return when I receive my 2013 refund.
How about we “delay” their paychecks until they catch up?
How about we “delay” their paychecks until they catch up?
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