Posted on 08/24/2022 6:06:30 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Who wants to be an Internal Revenue Service enforcement agent? Turns out, hardly anyone.
President Biden’s plan to boost government revenue over the next decade by adding 87,000 IRS agents is on a collision course with the hard reality that they can’t even recruit enough workers now to meet existing staff levels, according to recent studies.
That could seriously imperil Mr. Biden’s goal of using the IRS to generate $124 billion more in government revenue through 2031 to pay for portions of the $740 billion climate, tax, and health care bill he signed into law last week.
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The IRS will find far fewer than 87,000 that can meet their physical requirements.
I doubt very many CPAs will go to work for the IRS. They will be in much greater demand in the private sector, thanks to the looming increase in audit activity.
Everyone hates the tax man. Their job hasn’t changed in over 2000 years. Collect as much taxes as you can and keep a portion as your reward for doing your job well. In Roman times, only the tax collector knew how much that Rome required. Now the agents get a bonus for finding “errors” and “omissions” from the tax returns. If the filer appeals the claim and wins, the tax collector doesn’t have to pay it back.
One example was a friend had two women from the state tax collection agency to audit their business. He said the two women were provide with a secure office at their business where they would talk and laugh and cunt up all day for THREE WEEKS. At which time they presented the owners with a bill saying they had underpaid their sales tax by $27,000. The owners objected and appealed the amount and the state eventually settled for $1100. So they paid those 2 women to “work” for 3 weeks to collect $1100 and cost the company a lot of money for the accountants to cross check the claims. So, no body won, not the state, not the company, but you can guarantee that those to tax collectors got a bonus for “finding $27,000 in unpaid taxes”.
Not if it involves putting themselves in harm's way.
They are already here....they are called MS13
“Next step, get the non-English speaking leeches (currently begging for free stuff on street corners), to do the job.”
That’s a great idea.
Hiring 70 IQ people who can’t read or do math will completely destroy the IRS.
They just need lower standards. Felons, drug addicts and all sorts of mental deviants will fill their needs.
The IRS will lower their standards and allow just about anyone to take the job. If they had any real standards to begin with.
I hope that phrase in the second sentence of your second paragraph was a typo, and you meant “talk and laugh and cut up all day”.
Was never audited by the IRS...but by the "State Board of Equalization" in CA under Migden....known as the State Board Stasi.
Any way...they hauled off 6 boxes of records.....came back 2 months later ....I received a letter saying:
We found that you overpaid your sales tax by $1.95....this will be credited to your next return. (PS...Migden was forced to resign after several road accidents including wrecking her state provided vehicle)
In the largest such judgment against a state politician, California State Senator (and open lesbian) Carole Migden (D-SF) has been fined $350,000 for 89 instances of campaign finance and disclosure violations and for personal use of campaign funds. Migden’s attorney claims that the violations were a result of her 10-year bout with leukemia, saying, “She was battling cancer at the time and she didn’t pay attention as she should have.”
The 35-page FPPC report says Migden on eight occasions between 2005 and last June spent a total of $16,317 in campaign funds that “conferred a substantial personal benefit” to her without having a reasonable “political, legislative or governmental purpose” as required by law.
The wheels of justice grind slower in CA but grind they do.
I hope it wasn’t. I’m evil that way...
The people with the skill sets don't share the mindset.
Careful.....some of those Felons are established con artist...capable of devising sophisticated cons.
Like the guy on Bannon War Room who would modify title deeds and get loans or sell the property...comes out of jail and starts a company for property deed protection $1.00 a day.
I think it was Dan Bongino who said a week ago that the private sector can’t find qualified accountants for CPA firms so the likelihood of the government finding ANY - qualified or otherwise - is moot. Of course, the government won’t make “qualified” one of the requirements for hiring. As we know, any old warm body has always done the job!!
“The IRS needs smart people that can do higher level math, like it, can use it, know acconting principles and thus probably can’t find anyone.”
The IRS might need to have a serious discussion with Randi Weingarten about her union’s “work product”. They are a bunch of lazy, ignorant, entitled know-it-alls, steeped in left-wing propaganda and totally unsuited to demanding work.
Hello? Sure hope no one’s surprised by this. Would YOU want a job as an armed IRS agent?
I’m sure there are a lot of Felons, wife beaters, burglars, con artists, mass murders, and illegals that would be glad to be overpaid to harass citizens.
If I were a sociopath? Sure!
Even less oversight and higher probability of every shoot being a righteous shoot?
What's not to love?
...For a psychopath!
Quick story: I owned a business in Louisville, KY. I got a letter from the state tax people that one of their “agents” was going to visit my office to audit state sales tax collection and payment by my business.
This guy shows up at 11:00am, bitching he had to drive to my business from the state capitol in Frankfort, KY. About an hour’s drive. His car was a late model Ford LTD.
I provided him office space and full access to the company records.
It took him two days to do the audit. In the end he found one invoice where we failed to collect sales tax. In addition to the sales tax we had to pay interest and a penalty. Total was around $12.00.
The guy probably spent more than that on gas spending two days driving back and forth from Louisville to Frankfort.
What a waste.
He’ll increase salaries to keep and to hire!!!
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