Posted on 05/19/2013 9:51:41 AM PDT by Whenifhow
You know what the IRS is really great at? Breaking its own laws. In addition to targeting conservative groups, the corrupt government agency has also been singling out disabled veterans. They do this by using banks to launder and then stealing the veterans’ disability checks.
Shameful.
The Veterans Disability Act of 2010 exempts VA disability from withholding of any sort. But the IRS has been stealing disabled veterans’ money anyways.
Kevin Lake is a 60% disabled veteran of the Iraq War. A few months ago, he noticed that his VA disability check had not been deposited, and that his bank account was in the negative. Lake contacted his bank, and was told that the IRS demanded all of the available funds be taken out of his account and wired to them. A confused Lake then called the IRS, and was placed on hold for a long time (bureaucratic government agencies tend to be efficient like that!) before he was finally able to speak with an agent. The agent claimed Lake had made $157,000 in 2010 and that he owed them money. Funny, since in 2010 Lake was still in the hospital recovering from injuries he’d sustained while in Iraq — he earned less than $10,000 that year.
Le After telling the IRS agent that VA disability money is 100% exempt, Lake was placed him on hold for another substantial chunk of time (surprise, surprise!) and was then told, “We do not take veterans’ disability money. We wait until the funds are deposited from the VA and then we take all of the funds from your bank account.”
Bureaucrat language for: “We stole your money.”
Lake was a contributing writer for key Tea Party personality “Joe the Plumber”. This likely played a role in Lake being targeted and stolen from by the IRS. Oh, never mind — I forgot that “partisanship or the perception of politics has no place in the IRS”, as acting commissioner Steven Miller put it.
Give me a break.
After a lot of persistence, Lake was eventually successful in having the IRS give back the money they stole. But other disabled veterans may be victims of this disgraceful (and seemingly partisan) crime. Vets fought tirelessly for all Americans, but now they are being forced to fight for themselves.
Someone must be held accountable for this obvious, disgusting government corruption
The current administration hates the military and the people who have served. Par for the course.
i never told you anything... i simply ask how a direct deposit account they have the routing number for could stop the IRS from freezing your account let alone taking the money? or are you saying you open another account and hand deposit checks into it?
thank you...
They can be when they want to be.
I had an outstanding obligation for which the IRS was deducting the max allowable 15% from my monthly SS payment. About two years ago, my SS direct deposit hit the bank at 12:01 one Wednesday morning. By 7:30 that morning, the IRS had extracted the entire balance from my account.
Esentially, they told me: "Yeah, we can only take 15% from your payment; we can take the other 85% when you deposit it in your bank." (It took me several days to get that charlie-foxtrot resolved and my money back.)
When the US goes to a FairTax, or goes back to pre-1913 federal revenue raising (tariffs and import duties), then we can dump the IRS.
Unfortunately... too many still would rather keep the IRS and pay income taxes.
HAD to come from the WH——Obomber despises the military.
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