Posted on 10/17/2017 2:38:28 AM PDT by markomalley
The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly refusing to give back more than $59,000 to U.S. military veteran after it seized his gas station’s cash during a raid that found no evidence of criminal activity.
Oh Suk Kwon, 73, a South Korea immigrant who came to the U.S. back in the 1970s and served four years as a fleet mechanic in the U.S. army, bought a gas station in Maryland in 2007 following decades of work at an electrical plant as an auto mechanic.
“When I came to the United States, I had to do something for the country,” he told the Washington Post. He later became a U.S. citizen.
Following an honorable discharge, he continued pursuing the American dream, telling the paper: “My whole life was work, work, work.”
But just several years after opening the gas station, IRS investigators seized all the station’s cash – more than $59,000 – leaving the Kwon family cash-strapped, even though no evidence of criminal wrongdoing was found by the government, the paper reported.
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I don't like these forfeiture laws either, but if deal in lots of cash you need to know the rules unfortunately.
Agreed. It's like being pulled over for doing the speed limit, as it "seems suspicious when everyone else is doing 5-10 over".
I know a Vietnamese lady who’s dad fought for South Vietnam. He told his kids “We owe this country and we will pay back everything they gave us.” He worked three jobs. He couldn’t get anyone to give him a figure for bringing his family here so he gave the government a thousand bucks.
This why lots of Vietnamese I sold houses to over the years had “mattress money”.
I am not sure I am ok with it Even with a felony conviction.
This is stealing by the government.
is that criminal alien, Kosiken still there? Fire him and return the money to this guy.
So what?
They need to prove wrongdoing IMHO.
The bureaucracies are out of control and can ruin lives. How different is this from leftist communist organizations who are bent on ruining lives. Like the state Civil Rights Commissions who attack florists and bakers?
It doesn’t matter what we think is right or wrong. If you deal with cash, you have to know the rules. If I go on vacation with a decent amount cash, I cary a receipt for it.
It doesn’t matter what we think is right or wrong. If you deal with cash, you have to know the rules. If I go on vacation with a decent amount cash, I cary a receipt for it.
I agree that one has to manage to live with the oppressive laws.
But it is important to change laws that are wrong and oppressive. I did not realize that one needed proof the money is yours to travel. I often travel with 3-500 dollars. Wow.
I usually try to remember to bring a receipt if I am carrying over $500. It doesn’t seem like much, but you never know. Most of the forfeiture stories I’ve heard involve several thousand dollars or more.
“Civil asset forfeiture and other government seizures” without due process,
Always the first sign a people serves the Government and not a Government of the people,
Under demonic Obama the IRS became a corrupted future tool of the anti-Christ.
What we have here is yet another reason to replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!
America will NEVER BE A FREE COUNTRY so long as we have an income tax and an IRS!
If you’d like to help us abolish the IRS, please go to https://www.fairtax.org. This is a huge job, and we need all the help we can get!
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Structuring deposits shouldn’t be illegal. I can see it being a flag for further investigative attention, but not a crime itself.
Structuring deposits shouldn’t be illegal. I can see it being a flag for further investigative attention, but not a crime itself.
So the IRS jack-boots this honest man while hundreds of IRS employees owe millions in unpaid taxes yet they report to work everyday ( probably cheating about attendance too) so they can treat us like this.
If I were head of the IRS, every employee that owes unpaid taxes would be given one week to pay up or be given a cardboard box to hold their personal items as they are escorted out the door. There would be no exceptions regardless of job status. They would all experience the same rath as the unwashed masses they are supposed to serve and not falsely punish.
Making small deposits isn’t illegal. Structuring is.
No. The problem here is multiple, closely spaced ALL CASH deposits that seem to be kept under $10,000.00 to avoid the reporting requirements.
Here’s the rub: had he not taken the advice he claims to have received from the bank, filled out the paper work and made the over $10k all cash deposits, he would have been investigated but ultimately found to be acquiring the money legitimately.
His “crime” was structuring the deposits. His co-conspirator in the crime seems to be the bank who gave him this advice. Of course, there is no written record because Mr. Oh says the advice was given orally. Maybe it did or maybe it didn’t. Sometimes, the accusation of an attempt to evade is true.
Total confiscation of the deposit seems unjust in this case. However, there has to be some penalty for attempting to evade the law even for an otherwise legitimate business owner.
The law does have a valid purpose in identifying attempts to avoid taxes or criminal money laundering attempts. Here is the IRS webpage on it:
If this guy was a towel head from one of the motion-lotion desert countries like many US gas station owners are instead of a Korean, he would have had no problems.
The IRS became even more egregious under Obama. It’s time to clean it up or shut it down.
I’m going to call his Senators and ask them to help this guy. If they got 10 of the same calls, they might respond.
His Senators are Chris Van Hollen (D) and Ben Cardin (D).
Their phone number is 202 224 3121.
Call them and ask them to look into why this guy can’t get his money back from the IRS. Ask them to contact the guy’s attorney for details, Edward Griffin (410) 824-1513.
The resident that had his cash taken by the IRS is Mr. Suk Kwon, a 73-year-old resident of Maryland.
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