Eric Bolling from Fox said IRS agents came to his house. That...that must stop.
Several have had visits from the Secret Service after posts during the Clinton years.
Sad thing is, this month we have heard of other retirees getting the same letter and paying it. And then receiving another letter the following year- saying pay up again.
Just imagine, 401K early withdrawal penalty is 10%. 10% of their retirement...
I got caught cheating them out of $90.00. It cost me over $300 to get them off my back.
Or how many have had difficulties with the EPA, or been harassed by the TSA or rebuked by the Social Security Administration? This is a systemic tactic in 0bama’s Banana Republic America so you can bet it’s not limited to the IRS.
Two audits in a twelve month period. The first determined that I had overpaid by several grand, the second found deductions which were disallowed and netted a balance due the IRS nearly identical to the amount I had “overpaid”. Go figure...
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I have only received one letter from the IRS....it said I owed $700.00.....I didn’t even check to see if I did....I just paid it. People like us can’t hire a lawyer just on principle and certainly cannot afford to get the IRS down on us!!!!!!
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They owe me a lousy $80 . . . I e-filed through Turbo Tax in February, and haven’t seen a dime . . . nor have I received anything from the IRS that anything’s up . . . I also am on the Right-to-Life roster and Tea Party roster . . . So, I’m wondering if I’m scheduled for a lousy audit.
The part that I think was harassment from the IRS was the following. The penalty letters all arrived on a Friday. The date on each letter however was post dated 4-5 days into the future. On a date that happened to be my birthday. If they were doing it to tweak me or rub my face in it, they picked the wrong guy. Could careless about my birthday. Never even celebrate it. So I turned the tables on them and got all the penalties removed.
The small biz I am associated with got repeated letters demanding payment of something like $700. We hadn’t made any money that year....but, it freaked out my partners...I just sent them letters back saying “ZERO times 20% Equals...ZERO.” They finally quit bugging us.
Yes, my husband and I have been. It was the early 1990s and we were very proactive in the pro-life movement in our area. We were getting under the skin of a notorious abortionist by opening a women’s counseling facility next door to him and tried to persuade women to come to us instead of going to him. We had the police called on us for made-up infractions, was vandalized on numerous occasions, and we eventually had to install a video security camera outside of our building. The abortionist had big political connections so nothing ever happened to him. Well, about a year after we were up and running, we suddenly found ourselves being audited by the IRS. They harassed us so much, and even had an agent come to our house on Christmas Eve, and told my husband that the IRS is a big agency and can squash us like a bug. They seized wages, put a lien on our home, and just made our lives miserable. It took many years, but finally they got off our backs.
They questioned our charitable contributions in 2009. I provided additional information and they dropped it. I have to say that the agent I worked with was kind and sympathetic. Definitely not on a power trip...I appreciated that.
An old Lewinsky Timeline that I was running on Tripod back during the Clintoon Administration was getting hits from within the Executive Office of the President.
Our kid (25 now) was sent a bill for underpayment in 2010 He was at his first job after college (his wife was still in school and worked part time), so he wasn’t making big bucks, and comparatively the underpayment amount was pretty large. He went to the local IRS office and they could not figure out the charge or why he had been charged it. They helped him refile, and suddenly he didn’t owe anything.
Next year they pulled a similar stunt making him jump through hoops to claim his refund. Sent him extra paperwork to file in order to claim his refund, and when, according to them (the IRS), he didn’t send the paperwork in time, they said they weren’t going to send him the refund. They did eventually send it. But my husband and I couldn’t figure out why they were hassling a young married couple, with relatively low incomes and filing a 1040 EZ...two years in a row.
He is conservative and supported many conservative causes. Not sure if it was coincidental, but makes one go “hmmm.”
I was audited this last year after my brother ran for the US Senate out of Virginia in the Tea Party, then in the Republican Primary. I might have $1k-$4k in expendable income each year after paying bills, medical expenses, and repair bills. I overpay withholding to make sure they have their take and have a decent amount returned, which simply pays off credit bills en full.
They were just fishing, and probably some statistic somewhere triggered the audit. I gave them an accounting and sent them a box of records and even wrote them a check for a little over $100 just to cover possible different interpretations on some claimed items. Depending on how one did their accounting, they could have owed me about $1500 or I owed them about $100. I usually error on the side of giving them the benefit of the doubt to play it safe.
They ended up returning my payment and said they found no problems. Of course the timing of the audit really screwed up some professional proceedings I had been engaged in for several years, but that’s life.
I don’t think it was triggered by our conservative beliefs, but recent events has given me cause to pause.
Interesting observation...the underpayment they claimed our son owed was $700. I noticed in a couple other posts that the amount the IRS claimed in underpayment was $700. Another fact that makes me to “hmmmm.”