Posted on 04/11/2014 10:51:50 AM PDT by grundle
The government is now going through old records to see if it overpaid people on Social Security. If it thinks it did, it can now seize the IRS tax refund checks of the CHILDREN of those people it thinks it overpaid.
This isn't a proposal—it's already happening. For the past three years, the government has been confiscating hundreds of thousands of Americans' tax refunds, according to the Washington Post. It has already confiscated $1.9 billion in tax refunds this year alone.
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I’m getting old; I remember when the rule of law would have prevented this.
debtor prisons might comeback - maybe Dear Leader will haul off the entire extended family to the camps
Time to abolish the IRS.
*waves to the NSA guys*
rule of law
how quaint
How is this legal? Is it? I doubt it. They don’t enforce laws they don’t like and make up ones they do.
“For the past three years, the government has been confiscating hundreds of thousands of American’s tax refunds”
There is a simple answer, never overpay your income taxes. Always make sure that you owe at the end of the year. Works good for Obamacare “fines” too. I am always amazed at people who “love” to get a “refund” from the IRS. Dumb $hits think that getting their own money back after having “loaned” it to the government interest-free is wonderful! And we wonder why we have these “elected turds” in the Congress. John Wayne said “life is tough, and it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” We sure do have a bunch of dummies living here now.
Thanks grundle.
> This isn’t a proposal—it’s already happening. For the past three years, the government has been confiscating hundreds of thousands of Americans’ tax refunds, according to the Washington Post. It has already confiscated $1.9 billion in tax refunds this year alone.
I’m with you. I used to get a hefty refund every year. I revamped my withholding several years ago so I either owe a small sum or get a very small refund. There is no interest gained on a overpayment.
to keep American taxpayers in.
Apparently this is due to some sneaky clause inserted into a farm bill back in 2008 (Pelosi was speaker of the house then).
They could declare that the estate value was overstated. Or that assets were hidden from Medicaid.
Just make sure you don’t have a refund coming by under-withholding.
It is, at the federal, state and local levels, as you say Appy. The rules or laws are continually rewritten. Just when one thinks they have a handle on knowing the law one can be certain the rules or laws will change.
Wow. They lifted the statute of limitations on money owed to the government. In a farm bill.
“There is no interest gained on a overpayment.”
And you remove some leverage from the Government.
And don't bother with that, "bullet box" noise, a nation of citizens would have resorted to the bullet box years ago.
They changed the law in the 2011 tax bill to eliminate the 10 year statute of limitations on collecting government debts. The Republicans in the House approved this.
I don't see how that would be relevant to collecting "government debts" from anyone other than the debtor. Once the estate is settled, the government should have no further claim on the heirs, and the government should never have a claim on the children if the parents are still alive (short of overt fraud in which the parents' assets are titled in the children's names).
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