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”.
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.