[2ndDivisionVet]

So they're just like the mafia?

[PieterCasparzen]

Yes.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And for all this trouble with dubious debts they are getting what, enough to run Washington for five minutes?

Ah, but it’s cool. “It’s a tax.”

[lavaroise]

Ah, but try getting money back retroactively from them. If your refund is more than three year old, you get zip credit.

Also if both you and your spouse paid SS, only one gets a check. how about that.

[fella]

"Turns out that the feds had seized and then continued to hold her federal and state refunds, an amount greater than $4,400 — even though they were only demanding $2,996 from her to pay off her father’s debt. Lo and behold, once WaPo found out and started asking questions, the $1,400 excess was promptly returned to her. Amazing how fast bureaucracy can move when someone looks behind the curtain."

Kind of like the way the BLM also quickly backed down when the Reid/ChiCom land grab for solar power came to light.

[4rcane]

check if they going after gop donors using this as an excuse

[KoRn]

This just isn’t right(morally speaking).

If the Republicans had a brain, they would beat 0bama and the Dems over the head with this every day, from now until November.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

The number one thing to learn from this...do not have more withheld than your tax liability so that you can get ‘a refund’ . . . when you have too much withheld, you are loaning the gov’t money interest free . . . and when they do this kind of shit, you are SOL

[NonValueAdded]

I thought debt-bondage was outlawed by treaty.

[Yaelle]

Are we quiet meek serfs? Controlled by mocking and shaming on tv?

When will we take back our free country?

[petitfour]

Who voted for that farm bill???

[Gay State Conservative]

Just more cases of “the rich” being expected to “pay their fair share”.Mitt Romney was able to get away with not paying taxes for 10 years (Dirty Harry says it,so it must be true) but *these” people won't.

[Fishing-guy]

You would think there is a statue of limitation on repayment.
Holding the children responsible for what happened to the parents is not going to go over well with the public.

BTW, what about underpayment. Will the government be sending out checks too?

[kiryandil]

Never EVER pay the felonious IRS weasels more than you should.

Owe them money at the end of the year.

[nomad]

Isn`t that actually forbidden in the constitution, Forfeiture of Bloodline or something like that. Goes back to when they`d throw you in prison if they couldn`t catch a family member.

[Bogey78O]

Meanwhile the Pigford settlement wastes tons more.

[hinckley buzzard]

This along with Obamacare is another good reason not to over-withhold. It will be a lot harder for these thieves to confiscate your money of they don't have it in their grasp to begin with.

It is only prudent and wise to try to match your with-holding to the amount you will actually owe. Paying a little more on April 15 if need be can make up for some morally diseased bureaucrat taking a chunk of your refund without your knowledge or consent. Just try to get that illegally confiscated money back.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is probably why SS flunkies have been issued weapons and ammunition has been purchased for their training.

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

I once got a bill from the IRS for a little over a hundred bucks. There was no reason given why I owed the money not even the year I owed it for. Called my CPA and lawyer read the letter to them and was told just to pay up and forget it. I did and though this was in the 90’s I am still poed about it. It was a test I think to see if I would pay up for no reason and I have always wondered how many other people got the same type letter. By the way the Feds have never liked me very much.

[4Liberty]

War on kids

[Lmo56]

And the Feds can’t even document whether you ever received any of the benefits or not - the actual recipient of the money coulda blown it all at the track for all they know ...