Posted on 03/04/2021 6:39:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Way back when Atlantic City was still Atlantic City (i.e., before the casinos arrived), I went there in hopes of finding a job so that I could remain there for the summer, and for a few hours was employed in one of those Boardwalk tourist-trap establishments that conducted "closed sale" auctions of objets d'art and other useful novelties. The auctioneer would solicit bids from the crowd that had entered, do a few freebie giveaways of some of the lowered-valued (and often mass-produced) items, and then close off the premises so that the people seated could bid upon the supposedly higher-valued items in a private session. As I carried the items to the bidders and collected their money, I would look into the bidders' opened wallets to see what kind of cash the wallets contained, and through arcane code jargon (example: "Bidder Number 22 has lines"), apprise the auctioneer of which attendees might be good prospects from which to extract cash.
(After ascertaining the cost of renting a room for the summer, I realized that if I were to actualize my plan to enjoy a summer of beaches and the Boardwalk, I would be lucky when I returned home to begin the Fall Semester to have thirty-eight cents in my pocket; and decided to continue for the summer my campus job of shelving books in the library instead.)
Criminal tax offenses are arguably the most bureaucratically complex crimes to prosecute. The procedures and paperwork within the IRS are very involved and time-consuming. It all begins with the front-line IRS guy or gal auditing the tax return, who, upon encountering some reason to suspect criminal activity, completes the paperwork to initiate an investigation (of which stage alone the Internal Revenue Manual speaks more than 16,000 words).
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It always seemed preposterous to me that anyone would have any expectation of "confidentiality" when they submit a tax return to a massive Federal bureaucracy like the IRS. Between electronic record-keeping, the evolving skills of hackers, and the criminal element within the IRS itself, I would assume that everything on my tax return is going to be printed on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow.
This was a fishing scheme by the democrats who were looking for something to incriminate Donald Trump, and the Supreme Court went along. This Court seems to go along with the democrats totally!
Well, the solution to that is for EVERYONE to just quit paying!! /s
Vance and his corrupt cohorts what to go on a fishing expedition through the financial records allegedly looking for how the “hush” money was charged to the corporate accounts. Even if he finds it is charged to the business records as an expense, it would be ridicules to consider that a criminal tax charge in NY inasmuch as Trump is as much a franchise name as it is real estate business. Therefore, protecting that name is important from a business point of view IMO. Of course as the author suggests, having the records to peruse for an unlimited amount of time looking for something to damage someone is not the intent of any subpeona. That is the crux of what Vance is up to here.
My feelings on this issue, the country has far too many attorneys. Refreshing that Trump was not one of the leeches.
The country is moving in the direction of no freedoms. The Constitution has been trashed.
“Show me the man and I will find the crime.”
Perhaps this enumerated (8) Right is the reason that we have been lulled into a false sense of privacy, coming directly from the IRS website?
The Right to Confidentiality Taxpayers have the right to expect that any information they provide to the IRS will not be disclosed unless authorized by the taxpayer or by law. Taxpayers have the right to expect appropriate action will be taken against employees, return preparers, and others who wrongfully use or disclose taxpayer return information.
“The typical Business owner commits Three Felonies a day.” All a prosecutor has to say is Line 52 needs to read XXX which it doesn’t, and you’re guilty. Pity, because you can call the IRS 4X for clarification and get 4 different answers.
Does it mean that SCOTUS judge tax returns could also become target of a zealous prosecutor?
Hope springs eternal.
I want to see the bidens, obamas, clintons tax returns etc. etc. and their bank accounts.
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