Posted on 07/02/2007 3:09:44 PM PDT by spintreebob
Random tax audtis are coming back.
Beginning this fall, the IRS plans to revive a once controversial practice of randomly targeting thousands of taxpayers for audits, even when the agency has no reason to suspect them of wrong doing. IRS officials expect the tax probes to provide fresh data to update the top sccret formulas the agency uses to help select which returns to audit and thus enable it to do a better job.
The first wave of random audits will start in October and target about 13,000 income tax returns for the 2006 tax year, selected from various income categroies. The IRS says it expects to conduct random audits on similar size groups in subsequent years.
although the number of taxpayers affected represents a tiny share of the 136 million tax returns expectedhtis year, many of the random audits "will probably cover more ground than a regular audit" as agency officials gather data for their tax research. ....
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Immigration policy is not limited to just what ICE does. Immigration policy is agencies from the IRS to the Post Office granting "amnesty" at the agency level. In most tax amnesties, the delinquent has to pay at least part of the back taxes. But in this administrative amnesty, enforcement is purposely targeted to avoid targeting certain groups. Of course, the results of such research are then unscientific, skewed and of little value, except to push some bureaucrats agenda.
Tell me what you want the outcome to be and I'll design an outcome based research project for you.
Fair Tax bump
Anyone concerned about selective targeting of the IRS that purposely gives those who don’t pay taxes a pass .... including some illegals?
TYRANTS!
Random tax audits are evil. Even if a person keeps reasonable records the infernal revenue will find something. For instance ... If you deduct your car and keep a milage log. That log is NO GOOD if you don’t have a repair receipt ... even for an oil change ... with the milage on it on as a second party proof. If you do your own repair / oil changes ... you’re out of luck. If you pay deductable bills on line ... the cancelled check is not enough proof. The IRS brings people in and disallows EVERYTHING including home interest property taxes ETC. with the thought that most people can’t afford to hire someone to defend them ... it’s cheaper to just pay the IRS extortion money. I know the hard way recently
An audit of a tax return by definition requires a tax return.
That doesn't unnecessarily mean that those who don't file returns won't be targeted by other efforts, it just means they aren't the target of these audits.
Those of us that post on FR that are, more than likely, despised by the DC elite, will be second on their list right after Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Ingraham, Reagan, Hedgecock and the rest. Wonder how many DC traitors and Liberals will be audited? First guess, NONE!
Nope. Nothing to see here Citizen, move along...™
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The gummint is setting the stage for an insurrection...sooner or maybe later but an insurrection there will be if this kind of business goes on....! “Don’t Tread on Us”!
The gummint is setting the stage for an insurrection...sooner or maybe later but an insurrection there will be if this kind of business goes on....! “Don’t Tread on Us”!
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If the citizenry had character the IRS would not be able to hire anyone. No honest and self-respecting person would willingly work for the agency!
The real treasure trove for the IRS is not citizens, but the employers of illegals who hire off the books and avoid paying the 6.5% employer share of the wages. Then they could go after all the outsourcing companies, like IBM, that set up sham operations overseas and avoid American taxes.
Illegal employment would stop overnight if the Social Security and IRS got together and targeted all the fake SS Nos. and the employers at day labor pickup sites.
They could also call that moron Chertoff’s boys whp could then deport the illegals.
Yes, and you left out the part that this means each taxpayer selected at random will likely pay a CPA or enrolled agent hundreds or thousands of dollars to represent them.
Can you explain how a check made out to your local tax collector for prop taxes, with an amount matching your prop tax statement, with that check showing as cleared on a checking account statement can be disallowed..?
Likewise, can you explain how a home interest deduction on 12 checks amounting to 12 mortgage payments of equal amounts (for a year, of course) and an amortization table and a copy of your mortgage note could possibly result in a disallowance of your deduction for home mort interest?
I mean, these are (at least to my way of thinking) 100% unassailable proofs of having spent those monies on those things.
I take it you've had a rotten experience and I sympathize. I was audited by the CA State Bd of Equalization (for sales tax collection) in, IIRC, 1986. As I was selling expensive equipment at the time, my quarterly sales tax collections ran to $9K-$11K a quarter at the time. The auditor actually tried to solicit me for a bribe, I called the State Attorney general who was incredibly interested and two agents showed up on my doorstep 45 minutes after my call(!) They ultimately set up a sting, including hidden camera and mic, giving me marked $100 bills to pay him, and they arrested the guy standing in line at the Bank of America with $1500 in hundred dollar bills and a deposit slip to his account, LOL. Of course, I then had to go through the whole audit process again from the beginning.
I appreciate the IRS is different, they are in effect a meta-governmental agency in terms of unbridled power and can and will make your life miserable should they choose to do so.
I think the intimation was that the IRS will issue a cryptic demand letter where the amount due is less than the cost in time and money to defend your position.
Even if your deduction is 100% verifiable, it is cheaper to give the IRS another $200 than it is to fight it. It would cost more than that in lost wages, even if you didn’t feel the need to hire a CPA to accompany you.
REMINDER: If you are audited, the IRS can only ask you about your current return.
You are not obligated to discuss, show, or even bring, earlier returns, to an audit.
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Can you explain how your wife and 2 kids are allowed as deductions on joint returns in years 1,2,4,5,6,etc. But not in year 3 with no attempt by the IRS to claim anything ... just not allow them ... and with no audit?
Can you explain how you have a job in which you put 100,000 miles on your car in a year for business and are allowed to deduct that expense in years 1,2,4,etc but not year 3... with no audit?
Can you explain how you gross 14,900 in a year and request 800 of the 2,000 withheld back as a refund in April and the IRS in Nov of the same year says you owe over $7,000 for that year you grossed 14,900 with the IRS not disputing the amount of gross pay ... and with no audit?
Can you explain how the IRS can remove that $7,000 from your sister’s bank account with no advance warning to either you or your sister with the after-the-fact explanation that the person grossing 14,900 was “hiding” money in the sister’s bank account?
Can you explain how a person is guilty til proven innocent?
Can you explain how a conservative congressman and ranking majority member of the committee that controls the IRS assumes that the IRS never makes a mistake and is always right?
Can you explain how the #1 constituent service requested and not received of that conservative congressman was problems with the IRS where the taxpayer claimed the IRS was wrong ... and not once did the conservative congressman or his staff take the side of the taxpayer?
Can you explain why that conservative congressman lost re-election in a safe conservative Republican district?
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