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Unhappy Returns: IRS Moves To Bring Back Random Audits
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, June 20, 2002 | TOM HERMAN

Posted on 06/20/2002 5:51:45 AM PDT by TroutStalker

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The Internal Revenue Service is bringing back its controversial practice of randomly auditing individual tax returns in an effort to crack down on what it says is a growing wave of tax scams.

The move is an about-face for the IRS, which did its last batch of random audits in 1988 and was slapped down by Congress when it tried to resume them in the mid-1990s. Legislators pilloried the agency for its aggressive tactics in conducting such audits, in which thousands of Americans were forced to defend every line in their tax returns.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axixofevil; irs; randomaudits; taxreform

1 posted on 06/20/2002 5:51:45 AM PDT by TroutStalker
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To: TroutStalker
Who audits the auditors?
2 posted on 06/20/2002 6:20:27 AM PDT by texlok
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To: TroutStalker
Unhappy Returns: IRS Moves To Bring Back Random Audits

With Klintoon gone they have lost all their "Higher Headquarters' assigned Targets!

4 posted on 06/20/2002 9:10:44 AM PDT by Don Corleone
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To: *Taxreform
Bump list
5 posted on 06/20/2002 10:24:52 AM PDT by Free the USA
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To: Free the USA; *Taxreform
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]

Scrap the Code! Scrap the IRS! Abolish the VLWC!

We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.

Click here to help us scrap the Code, scrap the IRS and abolish the VLWC!

You can also click here to find out how to help us replace the income tax with a National Retail Sales Tax and abolish the IRS!

We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.


6 posted on 06/20/2002 12:36:32 PM PDT by Taxman
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