Posted on 06/02/2013 7:36:35 AM PDT by DFG
It’s hard to imagine that life could get worse for Kerri Steele in the months after her husband died of cancer at age 36. But then the Internal Revenue Service came calling.
An IRS audit is something we all dread. But imagine facing one in the midst of profound grief. Imagine preparing for one while trying to hold life together as the now-single mother of three young children.
“This was horrible,” Kerri said in simple summation.
And now she wants to prevent any other grieving person from facing such an ordeal.
The whole tragedy was something Kerri never saw coming. Exercise and eating right are sacrosanct to the Frisco family. “When you say healthy, we are healthy, healthy, healthy,” she said.
And that was especially so for husband Will. “He was a long-distance runner and rode his bike to work every day.” That was 5 miles to his job as an IT professional.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
God D@MN the IRS!!!!!
No decency at ALL!
Wow! More and more the stories are pouring out about the IRS and their... Well everything..and the Media is covering them. Who knows? The tipping point may just have occurred... Or maybe I’m just being a dreamer again.
Time to shut them down!
Looks like the kind of audit raised by obvious off-the-graph items in a tax return. They called, she explained, done.
Well...SOME of the media is covering it. ABCBSNBCNNPR are still in the “nothing to see here, move on” mode.
Remember “scandals” only happen when Republicans are in office.
This is not an isolated case. The IRS came after me two months after my husband died in 1999, over his business taxes. At the time, I was still in shock and barely functioning. Our accountant fought them to no avail, then she was diagnosed with cancer and couldn’t help me anymore.
I tried to fight them alone and then someone told me about an advocate that might be able to help me. She told me about an “innocent spouse” provision that might be able to help me. That took a lot of time and documentation, but last December I finally got a check for only a small part of the money they stole from me since 1999 (that’s 13 years!
They made my life a living hell at a time when I needed sympathy and help, not an evil government agency keeping me in constant turmoil. Sadly, I’m only one of many.
PS: And then, this January, I got a 1099 for interest income on the money they stole from me for all those years and finally only partly repaid!
Government/socialism doesn’t work.
government is evil
The IRS stole the 2012 election for Obama and the democrats/socialists in the Senate.Obama ordered his IRS to rig the election shut down tea party groups and donors to Republicans .And that’s exactly what the IRS did . This big socialist democrat Obama would not be now signing UN arms treaties that take away our 2nd amendment right if it had not gotten the IRS, FBI , FEC, DHS, DOJ , dept of labor etc to rig the election. We no longer live in a free country
This Lois Lerner was in charge of the FEC and IRS to shut down conservative donors or Republican donors. and now this monster takes the fifth
democrats love to grow government.
That is a perfect example of why both husband and wife should be aware of the financial situation. Have your teens involved with it, too, so they will understand if anything should happen to you both and for when they’re out on their own.
For six months, I was on hold with the IRS when they decided I hadn’t filed one year and started taking $$$ from our accounts without any prior notification. I only became aware there was a problem when my bank statements showed withdrawals though they “claimed” they had notified me several times. I had a copy of our joint filing with my signature and after several weeks got them to admit I had filed however they somehow couldn’t remove THEIR error so our money kept being stolen until I’d had enough and closed the accounts. Thankfully, it happened during a period I could devote 8 hours a day for six months to nothing but being on hold. That was back when we didn’t have cell phones so the home phone was tied up and I couldn’t do anything but sit there holding it all day. I’d have to get food and drinks set up by me and only go the bathroom when I couldn’t hold it any longer from worry they’d answer when I set the phone down. Ridiculous. It was torture and our stress levels were off the chart all because they were too lazy to make a simple correction.
For some time, I have been noticing that newly widowed women are immediately audited. I think that the IRS assumes these women don’t know where all of the records are kept and that they are in a vulnerable emotional state anyway.
I understand that my observations are purely anecdotal, but I see it happening with amazing regularity.
This has been going on for 10 or more years.
Proof positive that our current govt is ungodly and evil.
More and more the stories are pouring out about the IRS and their....Yet Warren Buffet says it’s a shame he pays less than hi secretary...but owes more than $4,000,000 (?) for four years?
Sounds like a war on women to me!
It was certainly true in my case and the case of the poor widow in the article. As soon as the obituary is posted, you also start getting calls from solicitors all day until 9PM every single day. Between the solicitors and the IRS, it’s a miracle that widows can eventually move on!
Been there, done that when they somehow decided one of our children didn't really exist and changed all returns since her birth to remove the exemption/credits, etc. Someone had entered her SS number wrong into the system and it was red flagged has a fake number.
Didn't matter how many times I mailed or faxed copies of her birth cert and ss card or how many times they admitted on the phone that THEY were in error. Nobody could change the record in the computers, which automatically kept red flagging us and spitting out notices and adding up interest and fines.
I finally had to get our US Senator involved at which point some supervisor was found to undo their freaking error. By then they OWED us thousands. They did not, of course, pay us interest nor did we get to fine them for their dumbassery.
Few years back, the state mistakenly calculated their version of my return. Took me four years to get it all straightened out with locals, feds, etc. and get my money back.
I had to drive to Harrisburg with my folders, I showed them their error (after months of phone calls, etc.)
The auditor said “Oh. OK”
No apology, no “we made a mistake”, just a ten page appeal report in my favor.
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Taking emotionally disturbed people, some of whom even feel suicidal or unable to carry on, and subjecting them to high bureaucratic pressure and abuse, seems unwise.
There is always the one who could snap.
Why any doctor would not order a biopsy on a lump in the throat is beyond stupidity.
Frankly, knowing what they did to me and my response, I wonder how many widows DID snap! It’s a miracle I didn’t.
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