Posted on 06/20/2016 8:32:50 AM PDT by detective
2011, while working as a college English instructor and writing articles for this and other sites about corruption in education, I set up a website called Dissident Prof with my own funds and by working in my basement. After one of my long-time readers sent an unsolicited $500 donation, I decided to apply for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
Thus began the ordeal with the IRS. I suffered through fifteen months of stonewalling followed by demands to quickly meet a financial and ideological inquisition.
I am now a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the IRS, because we now know the IRS had flagged applications based on criteria like this:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
It appears the Obama admin understands profiling very well.
Shut down the IRS and the income tax permanently.
Voila!
No more 501c status to worry about.
Problem solved.
Under Obama, the government won’t track islamic terrorists but they will track and go after conservatives.
The first thing to do was to judge how any inflow could be tracked. The second thing to do was to not identify yourself to scrutiny.
These people are not that smart; they are cogs in a political machine and telling them what you are doing is foolish IMO, especially if you are not in a position to make that big of an impact.
The current administration is 100% corrupt. It uses the full coercive power of the federal government against its enemies. This is an abuse of power, and is impeachable.
Obviously nothing will ever happen, since half the American public still has its collective head up its collective anal exit passageway.
Agreed —I was audited twice in the last 7 years —hadn’t been audited since the early ‘70’s —regarding my charitable contributions. All are to church/para-church and conservative organizations. Coincidence? I don’t think so....
We have a massive, unaccountable, government bureaucracy that has been captured by leftist/statists whose sole job now is to pursue the growth of statism.
Well said, detective.
That is one of Ted Cruz’s proposals. I hope President Trump adopts it.
the first step, maybe even before putting Koskinen in jail, is taking away all the guns from the IRS.
And you, like I, are on the permanent IRS audit list, right?
This is why we need to go to a no-loophole simple flat tax (with a generous initial earned income deduction to protect lower-income taxpayers). Getting rid of all those loopholes means the IRS can’t use its frightening power to intimidate anyone regardless of political affiliation.
No, it isn’t. His tax proposal was to retain an income tax, with an insidious VAT tax on top of it.
Do it the easy way. I registered as a democrat. No difference between the parties anyway.
Eew.
At a cocktail party back in the late 80’s, I struck up a conversation with a fellow — his name was Joe M. — whom I’d met on one or two previous events. After my first encounter, Joe’s neighbor and my boss at the time told me that Joe was an alcoholic who had just retired from 25 years with the IRS. Needless to say, I was guarded in expressing my political views to Joe as the IRS had helped my dad into an early grave in 1977 — at age 59 over an estate matter. Joe was pretty deep into his cups at the function in question and began telling IRS “war stories.” Most had to do with clear cases of criminal conduct by not very nice people. Joe — who was a few years short of 60 — sounded to me like someone who enjoyed helping getting really bad people off the street and I asked why he’d retired early. He told me that what he called “the service” had changed for the worse. Then I asked him about the new people coming in. He shook his head, actually teared up and said that many of them were “really bad.” I pressed. “Really bad” meant incompetent? “No — DANGEROUS,” he responded “they like to hurt people.”
It was then that I think I understood why Joe drank.
One word for you:
Bitcoin.
Nixon was to have had an enemies list.
Obama both has and uses it.
His enemies are Americans.
Does anyone expect less from this increasingly Shria compliant administration?
The flat tax is still an income tax. As long as you have only wage income, it is easy to calculate. But, sell a used car, or boat, or gun, or have a garage sale or lemonade stand, and it is no longer so simple and you are no longer free from audit.
A business is never free from audit for income tax, as they always have expense deductions that can be questioned. Sales tax receipts can also be audited.
All the IRS has to do to get to a simple wage earner is to hint to their boss that the boss's IRS trouble will go away if the boss fires the wage earner.
Without a total change over in government personnel, there won't be a change in the harassment policy. Trump is the only one who might consider the necessary firings and jailings, but I doubt even he will do what is needed. As long as the IRS keeps hiring sociopaths and psychopaths, we are screwed.
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