The IRS should be judged by it’s own rules.
If I declared my hard drive lost or irrevocably damaged, the IRS would deem me to be guilty of the worst case scenario tax exposure wise.
I say judge those closest to the hard drive fiasco to be guilty of the worst case scenario crime wise.
We need to defund the IRS. Come up with an alternative way of collecting taxes that doesn’t require 97.5% of the IRS staff, implement it, and be done with it.
how about the state collects the taxes, cuts a percentage check to Sam and everybody just walks away
Yes I know it's been said before.
But flip the coin, file your taxes and claim that since your computer crashed, and you just can't find the data, I guess that I owe NOTHING.
That's the equivalent.
In fact, kick it up a notch.
Hi, Rush Limbaugh here.
Couldn't find out how much I made last year.
Guess the IRS is $hit out of luck, huh?
So sorry!
Cue the wah-wahhh trombone sound.
If that's good enough for the IRS, WHY isn't it "good enough" for citizens?
Does ANYONE think for a second that they wouldn't be put in jail?