Posted on 01/09/2023 10:46:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
When you are rewarded and promoted based on how many cases you win.. what do you think is going to happen?
Are you going to go after the big folks who have the resources to fight you for years in court? Or go after the little guys who can’t?
Anyone who thought hiring more IRS agents was going to result in the big wigs getting targeted was a damned fool
HighSierra5 wrote:
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Defund the police? Are you kidding me? Defund the IRS and the Federal government while you’re at it. I know it won’t happen in my lifetime but I’ll do everything I can to hide my money and resources. F em.
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And sell personal items for cash, cashier’s check or MoneyGram; no third party online sales that could exceed the $600/yr threshold (used to be $20,000 AND more than 200 items in a year).
Obviously easier to go after the Low-Income people. They are usually smart enough to fight the IRS.
The IRS knows that the more wealthy you are the more likely you have retained the tax accountants and lawyers to give a fighting chance defending tax write-offs. The wealthy can pay people enough to find the numerous legal outs for paying taxes. They know how to shelter their money legally.
Poor people often do their own taxes. Being poor means there isn’t enough money to pay for professional services . They are going to make mistakes and may fudge the numbers in ways the IRS can catch easily. They can’t pay for legal assistance so the IRS can threaten them and they buckle under. The net collection is greater on a bunch of small fries with fine and penalties that don’t go to court than a few big fish that they have to fight.
They get depreciation and capital gains, as well as SALT.
Apart from “low income” I’d be curious to see what other commonalities exist.
Think about the intimidation factor. The IRS tries to be intimidating. Rich people don’t fall for it as much. Poor and middle class people do, and usually just react in fear.
Fear Biden Feds is the point. The poor vote and are easily manipulated by fear.
But but but... democrats are on the side of the poor! They all said so!
IIRC-—IRS offers FREE calculations of returns on internet.
They probably picked the returns that didnt have the EOC claimed and promptly paid the illegals.
Question...what do you think is rich?
I think the IRS was handing out more money to those who didnt take advantage of all the handouts.
Why should the average joe/jill have to pay someone to calculate their tax returns? I'm a W2/1099 filer. It is a miner headache to file taxes, but it is not that difficult. I can crank out my tax returns in a few hours. Granted there are exceptions when major life changes occur...
Yes you are probably correct that CPA prepared returns are more likely to follow the rules. But it is also easier to bully a low-income self-filer who may not have the best record keeping practices, than a trained professional CPA. So the IRS auditors probably also find their job easier when they target the low hanging fruit.
When I did commercial tax prep, I had a number of clients try to submit false returns. Not often but about 1% each year - that I know of. I was required to show “due diligence” but had to accept their word or documents IF there wasn’t a reason to doubt them. But when a small business owner wanted to file based on numbers hand written on a pad, or someone refused to provide any documentation on a child, or the child had a different last name and they couldn’t explain why, or their W2 looked like a number had been erased...
Bkmk
Is there a difference between knowingly false and so disorganized they didn’t know what was going on?
It all depends on what you’re doing and how complicated it makes the forms. Taxes are more complicated than they should be by design.
Poor people get various tax breaks that are supposed to help them but have lots of conditions that poor people don’t understand or know. Make a few dollars more? Lose that credit. Want to take a deduction? Where is the recipes? Worked freelance? Lots of records to keep track of and some extra taxes that may have to be paid.
“knowingly false and so disorganized”
There is a difference. Usually an obvious one.
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