Then you have the Daily Mail advertising the error for all to see.
Wait til there’s 87k more of them to screw things up.
IRS error: Mistakes happen. So what? We forgave ourselves already.
Our error on tax matter: You are losing your pension, bank account, your house and your pension. And going to jail unless our armed agents decide to shoot you down like a dog.
I was one of the people who got a letter from the IRS maybe 3 years or so ago. Data breach. They said they thought it was unfortunate. Someone tried to get a college loan using my name and bank through the IRS records and were refused.
Oh bull excrement
Right, it’s always an error when they do something wrong and pull a boner like this. But keep in mind, that they always say we meant to do it whenever we make a mistake of any kind on our taxes.
Not a mistake. Most likely from RNC Dinors list. This is what they mean when they say “punish our enemies and reward our friemds”.
Not to worry. Those87,000 IRS coders will be there soon to help protect us.
Was it done by one of the new diversity hires?
“human coding error”
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge!
Must have been one of them coding jobs the administration’s been touting for the last however long... if you don’t like working in a factory just get a coding job learn how to code... I’d like to see one of them MFS learn how to code, they have no idea what they’re talking.
Accident? Sure...
Human error and we have corrected it. We can assure you that this SAME error will not happen again. ... Until next time!
Why do you worry anyhow? The IRS manages the Internal Revenue Code and associated revenue collection at a historical accuracy of the high 90s by percentage!
Note though that Title 26 of the US Code (Congress passed taxation laws) is under 3,000 pages which makes it ~1.5 million words. Then there is the IRS written regulations that interpret what Congress has written into the IRS forms. Add to that the various Tax Court rulings and guidance letters in the years since 1916. By various estimates as they move these goalposts FREQUENTLY, the number of words in the effective tax code is somewhere close to 5 million of dense legalese.
Thus at 5 million words, a 1% misinterpretation would be 50k words in a scattergun spread that makes standing in quicksand look comforting! And the interpretation of the proper understanding of any error in this word salad is the IRS, the Tax Courts and, ultimately, the Federal Appeals process to the Supreme Court.
Thinking the alternatives like a complete replacement by something like the FAIRTax or some other visionary national sales tax to replace the IRS process? Do that and you still need revenue agents to insure that the sales tax is properly computed and sent in BUT the database of citizen information like this would not exist to be ‘accidentally’ exposed. I say visionary because government functionaries LIKE having the tax code to use like an axe. Just ask President Trump!
Just keep Demoncrats in office.
This makes me angry in ways I simply cannot express with the written word.
I work in healthcare. If I made this kind of mistake, I would be fired, the hospital would be fined millions of dollars, our name would become mud in the media. All under the aegis of government law with accompanying penalties imposed on healthcare, and mercilessly administered.
And it isn’t that I think that high bar is bad. It makes those of us involved consider deeply the actions we take in our profession.
But the government?
Government agencies and employees can lose track of millions of people’s records that contain not just a name, address, medical record number and date of service, but vital things like tax information, social security numbers, account numbers, legal information, you name it, and nobody is punished or even reprimanded.
That double standard makes me angry in ways I cannot civilly express.
An obvious mistake because of under staffing. These poor people are so over worked and punch drunk they pushed the wrong button. Get some more help in here stat!
Human yeah right. It was malicious cat
“”On Friday, the Treasury assured Congress that Social Security numbers, full income information and other key pieces of financial data were not published and that those affected would be contacted in the coming weeks.””
Data was not published but those affected would be contacted??????? FOR WHAT REASON?
No wonder they need 87,000 new bodies at the IRS....
Probably spending too much time at the pistol range.