“The Dems wanted Metric buttloads more money!”
Lol!
A new unit of measurement.
The IRS is the designated US Gestapo, no rules and your guilty unless you spend lots of money to prove your innocence. That’s exactly how it was designed and structured to work. You can thank a Rothschilds for the IRS.
All constitutional rights are suspended when the government wants money from a target.
Outrageous! LORD have mercy on us all!
All government employees and elected officials should have regular polygraph exams, paid for by the individual being tested.
Probably due to threats to IRS employees from taxpayers...public-facing IRS employees get to use a “Stage Name”. Although the “IRS Taxpayer Advocate” says that their ID (for “home visits”) will have their real? full name on it:
Anyone inside your home who has gained entry with a story, and then once inside changes to a completely different person with a different reason for being there should expect to be treated like a home invader. Shotgun point, proned out, and a call to 911. The slightest resistance or aggression should be addressed as the deadly situation it is. It’s likely to be a rapist, robber, escapee, serial killer… you name it.
A surprise IRS visit turns super lefty Matt Taibbi into a Republican.
https://www.racket.news/p/thanks-to-a-politician-who-did-his
This will embolden hordes of scammers, because this sort of behavior basically means the public will have no way of knowing if the aggressive, threatening man at their door really is an IRS agent or just a scammer posing as such. Genius. /s
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We live with a tyrannical gooberment. That is all. Somewhere there may be due process but it is either too late or too expensive to reach. This must end somehow.
This is gonna get outta control and we’re gonna hafta kill people.
Dear Lord Jesus, please bless and defend all on FR from the evil one and his servants, and thank You and the Father for Your precious Blood of the ‘Lamb, who takes away the sin of the world.’ now, please, Lord, let the IRS (and all the alphabets) be thwarted in every evil plan they devise, against Your People and Your Church. let their great scourge and burden on the people of America quickly pass away. nevertheless, let the Father’s Will be done always, and in His Son’s Holy Name i continue to ask for relief and protection from this corrupt gov’t that we now have over us. Amen.
Seems the irs believes its a local/state/federal police agency.
The police can lie to you.
The fake name routine has been the norm for quite some time, but especially since social media has blossomed.
I am in regular communication with many agents who use pseudonyms, especially in collections. Many have shared with me why they had to do it.
Recently an IRS Collections Agent told me of a disgruntled taxpayer who posted pictures of her children and extended family on their own social media as a threat. It really scared her and she then began using a fake name.
I see both sides of this issue, and as a mediator trying to solve taxpayer issues, it’s easy to see that there are a lot of mentally ill taxpayers who reach the point of despair and turn to violence. Especially those who are beings taxed and assets seized for criminal operations revenue.
I’ve handled several IRS criminal cases with CID, and it’s not easy. Yes, the system is open to abuse by agents, and that does happen. However, the IRS has a feedback system to find and correct rogue agents. I was the liason between a large state society of CPA’s and the regional IRS prior to my retirement. To use the Director’s own words to me, “Sometimes our agent’s wander off the farm and we need your help to reel them back inside again.” They monitor for rogue agents and curtail them. I have been involved in several such cases that resulted in termination of both audit and collection agents.
The problem is that right now the IRS got all this money in exchange for not prosecuting Joe and Hunter. That’s why Joe held onto this issue in the recent budget negotiations with McCarthy.
The huge influx of new agents that are untrained will create many problems. IRS staff is right now doubling in size with new green recruits. It’s a confrontation waiting to happen. 😥
The government can KMA. They want unfettered tyranny without consequences.
I think most folks get the concept of using fake names for agents dealing directly with the public as a protective measure.
The more interesting angle is why do we need such protection to begin with?
People attack the government when they are threatened by it. In the early US history, there wasn’t any need for this and not even secret service.
But “elections having consequences” didn’t mean one administration vs another would completely destroy your life. Nor was there rampant “confiscatory” taxes.
Just look at the difference between Trump and Biden.
The real problem is, it’s only going to get worse.
Out of fear from later intimidation, will it also be acceptable for me to use a fake name when communicating with an IRS agent?
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