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Tax professionals ‘horrified’ by IRS decision to destroy data on 30 million filers
CNBC ^ | Kate Dore | PUBLISHED THU, MAY 12 20221:58 PM EDT - UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Posted on 05/13/2022 10:45:59 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/13/2022 10:45:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I can’t file my taxes next year — I destroyed the data on 1 filer (me). But it’s just 1 and not 30 million, so I guess it’s no big deal.


2 posted on 05/13/2022 10:48:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: Red Badger

I paper filed in January 2022, this year, for tax year 2019.

I just submitted the online, send to my US mail request, for the status.

I.R.S. still claims no return filed.


3 posted on 05/13/2022 10:49:01 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England

They are pushing people to electronic filing, and I beleive the mishandling of paper filings is designed to encourage that.


4 posted on 05/13/2022 10:50:40 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Red Badger

And yet if WE filed an incomplete form, all hell would break loose and we’d be fined.

So if they are going to destroy the records, then how do they differentiate between people who filed wrong and people who filed correctly and are not supposed to be penalized?

I. DON’T. TRUST. THEM.


5 posted on 05/13/2022 10:50:45 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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i paper filed with certified mail, and the postcards came back.

glad i used certified mail...


6 posted on 05/13/2022 10:51:30 AM PDT by SteveH (.)
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Probably to make sure Joe and Hunter’s tax return data can never be recovered.


7 posted on 05/13/2022 10:52:39 AM PDT by gswilder
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“prompted by a backlog of paper filings“

More like prompted by laziness and incompetence, corruption and irresponsibility. … Not more like.. 100% like.


8 posted on 05/13/2022 10:54:13 AM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: George from New England

The IRS sent me an overdue tax notification of $472 for covid relief funds i never received in 2020.

6 months prior to receiving this notice i received a first notice telling me I had not yet cashed my covid relief check of $472. I called and they said a replacement check was on the way- despite the fact I told them i did not want it.

Never received the replacement check. I was on the phone with the IRS for more than two hours helping them connect the dots. I finally got a letter telling me i owed them nothing since no check was ever cashed. On my 2021 taxes I deducted $750 ($375 and hour) for the time i spent on the phone with them- figuring out their problem- as a tax preparation deduction.


9 posted on 05/13/2022 10:54:53 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Red Badger

Just another step toward the U.S. becoming a Banana Republic.


10 posted on 05/13/2022 10:55:50 AM PDT by Angelino97
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i paper filed with certified mail, and the postcards came back. glad i used certified mail...

The IRS used to have a rule that said they did not have to accept proof you had mailed, and they had received, a tax return, unless the tax payer sent it registered mail. Has that changed?

11 posted on 05/13/2022 10:57:11 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: George from New England

Their 1200 baud modems haven’t downloaded it yet.....................


12 posted on 05/13/2022 10:57:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Ever wonder if the intended purpose is to get rid of Xiden family tax records to protect against future opposition Congress investigations like have been done with Trump?

The only thing that makes me question that motive is the fact that the GOP doesn’t have a history of having the political balls to extract payback.


13 posted on 05/13/2022 10:57:46 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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The GOP doesn’t have a history of having balls..............period...............


14 posted on 05/13/2022 10:58:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Would the be horrified if 30 million filers were destroyed?


15 posted on 05/13/2022 10:59:56 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Red Badger

My refund, based on a retroactive court finding of general tax law, has not been see since last year. It was filed early last year and I got 60 day extension notices from IRS for a few months telling me to be patient then nothing for the last many months.

Try not paying your taxes though.

Hate is not a sufficient word.


16 posted on 05/13/2022 11:01:18 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Red Badger

So what types of fradulent returns that were filed could be now harder to be detected with those info returns destroyed? Bueller?


17 posted on 05/13/2022 11:02:19 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Red Badger

It is impossible to harm the reputation of the IRS.


18 posted on 05/13/2022 11:03:24 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: gswilder

You can bet it’s something like that. Destroy millions of records to delete some buried among the others Classic


19 posted on 05/13/2022 11:03:55 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Red Badger

If they don’t have the paper with your signature on it then they cannot hardly expect to win a case in court where they say ‘your return is wrong/fraudulent.’


20 posted on 05/13/2022 11:04:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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