To: America_Right
Not sure, but I would bet ALL of it!
2 posted on
07/12/2006 2:50:05 PM PDT by
jrestrepo
To: America_Right
Interesting. I sent them a check for what I owed. They had time to look my return over and determine that they needed to send me a letter asking for copies of two of obscure worksheets I'd never heard of. [Thanks goodness TurboTax printed them for me.] I figure that they hoped they might get $10 more out of me. [Taxwise, I am simple and small potatoes.]
4 posted on
07/12/2006 2:53:09 PM PDT by
Clara Lou
(A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
To: America_Right
About sixty five thousand a year.
5 posted on
07/12/2006 2:55:53 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: America_Right
only about .03% of what the US Treasury wastes
6 posted on
07/12/2006 2:59:46 PM PDT by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: America_Right
They once sent me a revised copy of our tax form. Said I owed more money for a deduction I had taken and wasn't entitled to. I sent them a highlighted copy of a page in their instructions that said I could take the deduction. Last I heard from them.
7 posted on
07/12/2006 3:37:05 PM PDT by
barker
To: America_Right; ancient_geezer; Taxman; pigdog; Principled; EternalVigilance; PhilWill; kevkrom; ...
There is a way to end all the waste.
The Fair Tax Act H.R.25 will abolish the IRS and replace all federal income taxes with a consumption/national sales tax and receive 100% of our paychecks. More information can be found at
The Americans For Fair Taxation website. Fair Tax ping!
8 posted on
07/12/2006 4:09:51 PM PDT by
Man50D
(Fair Tax You earn it . You keep it!)
To: America_Right
From an interesting article from the Heritage foundation 2005 on government bureaucracy waste:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1840.cfm
9. Earned Income Tax Credit Overpayments The earned income tax credit (EITC) provides $31 billion in refundable tax credits to 19 million low-income families. The IRS estimates that $8.5 billion to $9.9 billion of this amountnearly one-thirdis wasted in overpayments.
An earlier (1994--one can assume that things have only gotten worse) article from the CATO Institute: Why You Can't Trust the IRS
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa222.html
# The IRS telephone taxpayer assistance program provides about 8.5 million Americans the wrong answers to even the most basic inquiries about the tax laws.
# This year roughly 10 million Americans will receive correction notices from the IRS assessing about $4 billion. About half of those notices will be erroneous.
# About 40 percent of the revenues the IRS collects through penalty assessments are abated when citizens challenge the penalties. In 1993 taxpayers were over- charged $5 billion.
# A General Accounting Office audit of the IRS in 1993 found widespread evidence of financial malfeasance and gross negligence. The IRS could not account for 64 percent of its congressional appropriation.
Another good question would be: how much time/money do WE waste trying to comply with the IRS?
9 posted on
07/12/2006 5:07:05 PM PDT by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: America_Right
No IRS = No Waste on IRS
I still want someone from the IRS to tell me why, WHY should I support them and keep the IRS as a part of my life.
KGB has more redeeming values than the IRS on their worst day.
TT
To: America_Right
just got a notice from NYS this morning - my son owes the state $25.01
absolutely ridiculous
14 posted on
07/12/2006 6:01:14 PM PDT by
Revelation 911
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To: America_Right
Here's one way to consider it ...
The 2006 budget for the IRS was 12B$ and they have approx. 115,000 employees. Ignoring all other expenses that would give about $104,000 per employee. Even dividing that by 2 gives something (about $52,200) that would work out to a bit over $26.10 per hour.
If the employee spent 1/2 an hour on the matter (ignoring all other costs) ... well ... no wonder our government runs a continual deficit.
17 posted on
07/12/2006 6:35:32 PM PDT by
pigdog
To: America_Right
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I got my letter from the IRS yesterday. I was told that I would spend more money arguing with the IRS than just paying the bill. A lot of dough that I just don't have. I guess Im in that 'small percentage' of the self-employed that will be audited. When youre faced with the choice of spending who knows how much on accountants and lawyers, or paying the fixed fee that the IRS claims I owe, it seems a zero sum game or worse. So even though I reported everything I made... and paid what I owed... Im still forced to raise the funds to pay the IRS claim rather than try and prove the error was not mine. So... until we get the Fair Tax, like the true capitalist I am, I am auctioning my services strictly to raise money to get the IRS off of my back. I guess Ill sing for my supper.
Here's How I'm Going Raise the Money... Here's hoping for tax reform! I would sure like to concentrate on raising money for my family and not the government!
19 posted on
07/12/2006 7:50:12 PM PDT by
lokii
To: America_Right
26 posted on
07/13/2006 8:56:15 AM PDT by
VOA
To: America_Right
They got me two years ago. Ten grand worth.
28 posted on
07/13/2006 2:04:26 PM PDT by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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