Posted on 04/30/2023 9:16:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Fresh off a new injection of $45 billion to ramp up its enforcement efforts, the IRS is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to allow its agents to secretly obtain financial records, without ever notifying the account holders. Although the case, which will be argued in March, centers around an arcane statutory dispute, it will have massive implications for the Fourth Amendment rights of taxpayers nationwide.
Now a broad coalition from all across the political spectrum, including the ACLU, the Cato Institute, the Center for Taxpayer Rights, the Institute for Justice, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is urging the Supreme Court to limit the IRS’s power.
If the Supreme Court sides with the IRS, the ruling would grant the agency “effectively unfettered power to seek the complete financial records of anyone with even a tenuous connection to a delinquent taxpayer,” the Institute for Justice warned in its amicus brief. Worse, the IRS could “comb through these third parties’ most sensitive financial records without their knowledge, let alone any opportunity to object.” In fact, “the agency may demand the production of anyone’s most private financial records based on no standard other than that some government agent wants to see them.”
Unfortunately, this is not hypothetical or hyperbole. The case started when an IRS agent suspected that Remo Polselli had been concealing his assets through bank accounts held in his wife’s name. The agent then sent summonses to Hanna Karcho Polselli’s bank as well as to the banks for two law firm Remo had patronized.
Those summonses ordered that the banks “appear before” the IRS “to give testimony” and “to produce for examination...all bank statements relative to the accounts” for Hanna and those law firms. Despite this massive intrusion into their financial privacy, the IRS didn’t even bother to send notice...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
We will easily win this. Roberts is on our side on this.
I just assumed the IRS already could and did do this whenever they darn well felt like it. I figured that was one of the Rules Of The Road if you held any bank account within the USA. I vividly recall when the IRS wiped out one of my credit accounts because I owed back taxes. I had never felt so shocked, and at the same time, so powerless before.
This is a damn important case. We have a chance of winning this one. Manchin is an opportunistic jerk but he did save the SC. Biden and the rest of the rats were absolutely going to stack the Court. They had the commission seated and a gang of rat hacks ready to go but Manchin and Sinema stopped them thank God.
Been hearing a lot from people moving to unBanking themselves in light of recent bank failures and the Fed. Now they want to let the IRS ‘secretly’ comb through bank records?
Yeah, that make people feel real secure in their privacy.
UnBank yourself today!
What exactly is *unbanking*?
How do you “un bank” yourself? Do you mean don’t have a bank account at all? Do you mean use Bitcoin or other crypto instead?
IRS needs every possible penny. The new budget is so outrageous that they need to tax everyone and everything even more. Our government is completely out of control, and they have lost all ethics. It’s time for a new government.
"Supreme Court To Decide If IRS Can Secretly Comb Through Bank Records"
No mention of the 16th Amendment (16A) of the amendable Constitution in the referenced article, 16A giving the corrupt feds all the excuse that they need to spy on bank accounts imo.
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Did somebody just mention amendable Constitution?
If patriots don't want the constitutionally undefined IRS, run by non-popularly-elected bureaucrats, snooping in your bank account, then amend the Constitution to repeal 16A.
The 17th Amendment can disappear too.
Think the 4th Amendment applies here too.
The IRS needs to know about every bank account,and all transactions and all investments and all your purchases and all your earnings...
if they are going to have a chance of collecting all the funding needed to support all of the democrat/socialist/communist programs that are coming to us all.
Taking from the people via tax collecting will not be enough, and everything people own, will be the government’s.
Without a warrant? So, the FBI or other government entity could bypass rights and get tge IRS to do it?
Putting your money in your mattress?
They’ll do it anyway.
If the 17th Amendment is repealed, the Senate will swing fas to the left.
4th Amendment
Are you saying the IRS charged your credit card for back taxes? Without your knowledge?
I know that one can use their CC to pay but I’ve never heard of that move.
I know one thing - never ignore them. As long as you are in communication and making even the smallest effort they will not get into collection and liens.
Imagine you paid somebody to mow your lawn, clean your house, or just help in a project. Did you file a 1099? If the IRS gets their way 1099’s are going to be as common as toilet paper. And those poor people that don’t make Jack squat to begin with will have IRS on their ass for taxes for all this newly reported income. ‘Nobody making under $400,000…”. Remember that line.
Until someone in the Deep State has a chat with him.
“Nice kids you got there, Chief Justice! It’d be a real shame if somehow the adoption paperwork turned out to be fraudulent, woonit?”
It’s not even close but the country isn’t really governed by its founding documents so we’ll see what the 9 think
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