Posted on 01/14/2015 12:22:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
With a week to go before tax season opens, taxpayers were already bracing for a potentially “miserable” filing season. It turns out that it could live up to the hype.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Koskinen has advised employees that the budget cuts will result in reduced services to taxpayers. In an email to employees sent earlier today, Commissioner Koskinen advised that “realistically we have no choice but to do less with less.”
What does that mean for taxpayers?
* Identity theft could increase. Despite the need for increased taxpayer protections against identity theft, the implementation of additional measures will be delayed. That’s bad news for taxpayers since, despite the efforts of IRS and other agencies to stem the tide of identity theft, scammers have grown more bold.
TIGTA reported that telephone scammers, posing as IRS representatives, managed to steal more than $5 million from taxpayers last year. And as quickly as the scams are picked up, they change. IRS-Criminal Investigation has responded to what has been termed an “epidemic” of identity theft by ramping up investigations – but with wholesale cuts to IRS, expect those investigations to dip, too.
* Refund delays. It turns out that satirical piece on tax refunds making the rounds might have had some merit after all. According to the Commissioner, taxpayers who file paper tax returns may have to wait an extra week or longer to see their refund. In the email, the Commissioner didn’t specifically address whether delays would affect refunds for taxpayers who e-file, though a few weeks again he refused to say that refunds would not be delayed.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Koskinen needs to be fired yesterday.
Shutdown ?
Dear God, please......
These clowns don’t have any public parks or monuments to close to garner sympathy, but they are doing the best they can to punish the sheeple.
If the IRS starts playing these games as “punishment” for cutting its budget, the GOP Congress needs to start a massive investigation of the IRS that results in a lot of IRS employees going to jail. This agency is more dangerous than it ever has been and needs to be slapped back into line.
Shutdown the IRS? Woo hoo!!
Punish The Citizens is the name of the game
“Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Koskinen has advised employees that the budget cuts will result in reduced services to taxpayers. In an email to employees sent earlier today, Commissioner Koskinen advised that “realistically we have no choice but to do less with less.”
How transparent of the obana administration to concoct that email and make it public. If they were only so fast with lerners emails.
Delayed refunds, eh... I suppose they’ll have corresponding delayed depositing of on-time payments?
Punishment, pure and simple. I despise the &%*!
We should make it easier on them by delaying our tax payments.
And THIS is supposed to be BAD news?! SCREW the IRS! CLOSE IT DOWN!
“We’ll teach you little people to vote Republican.”
Oh, so now they'll be giving our identities to illegals.
These stories always crack me up. I always pay.
Took them all of 5 days to cash my check when I sent last year’s payment. In the past, I’ve waited up to 20 weeks for a refund check.
They may be talking about shutting down the entire health care system.
Only the refund side of the house, not the enforcement side...
IRS had a measly 350 million out of 12 billion cut.
A whole 3%.
Now the arrogant obfuscator and perjurer Koskinen says the sky is gonna fall.
When is that guy gone?
When does the GOP do something real and get rid of the federal income tax?
Hope they are also cutting back on the million dollar meetings in Las Vegas.
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