Posted on 05/29/2013 8:57:04 AM PDT by Perseverando
Exclusive: Lord Monckton tells why he has had success battling Britain's tax collector
The Internal Revenue Service, by the nature of its job, is hated. Taxes are so high that we work longer for the State than feudal villeins in the Middle Ages, who had to devote three months a year to the king’s service.
The result of the sheer cost of neo-feudalist government is that tax collectors are even more detested now than they were in King John’s day. Overspending politicians are to blame.
Attempts by left-leaning bureaucrats at the IRS to abuse their power by maliciously conducting unreasonable audits of center-right individuals and organizations have come to light.
Joseph Farah, WND’s founder, was one of the earliest victims of this clique. His crime: in claiming his spending on books as tax-deductible, he had told the bureaucrats it was no business of theirs what books he reads.
The IRS has tried and failed to charge him $8,000 in back “taxes” and penalties, not because he ought not to have deducted books but because he will not reveal the titles. Now the state of Virginia wants to claim sState taxes, too. Joseph is rightly refusing to pay.
This disturbing episode demonstrates that in one important respect the U.S. is less free than the police state Britain has sadly become.
Many years ago the Revenue wrote to demand $200 a year in back taxes on seven years’ worth of dividends on my tiny share portfolio. I owed the money, but I had not realized some some of the companies that paid my dividends had not deducted tax first. Yet the Revenue’s opening shot was a demand that I should not only pay but also sign a settlement with them “in consideration of not being prosecuted.”
My accountant told me to sign.
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I’ve been audited a few times. So far, it’s essentially a tie - they find trivial errors that swing my taxes by $50 either in my favor or in their favor. The real cost is my time spend with their sadistic, self-important auditors, and my accountant’s time wasted on non-productive interactions.
How to fight back? Fill out all forms in sloppy hand writing and submit. Don’t let the machines process it for them, require a human to read it. Stray marks and bad writing, odd colored pens. Submit trivial amended returns for $2 refunds or even a payment, well worth it. Paralyze them.
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