This is the first I have ever heard about it.
I would have expected at least somebody like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz or Mike Lee to have been making some noise about it.
The IRS is getting smarter—and more desperate. A few years ago they were caught stuffing thousands of unprocessed tax returns into their service center drop ceiling because they couldn’t keep up. Now they destroy them—nothing left to process.
“I see you have some money. Give it to me.”
With the obvious two tiered system of injustice we now have it should be clear that the IRS is going to be used to repress Republicans. Lots of Republicans requires lots of tyrants to get them.
Deja-Vue!
I remember when several ATF workers did the same thing with NFA forms.
The miscreants were “Transferred to less stressful duties”.
No one was punished in any way.
The same result will be seen here.
The swamp wants to bury us all.
How many years back?
2020, 2019, 2018 etc. What if you did not file say 2018, would the IRS know one way or another as records are destroyed.
Do they know what records were destroyed?
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The IRS responded the 30 million destroyed returns were only 1 percent of the total information returns filed, and they were destroyed due to a software limitation and to make room for 2021 tax filing season documents.
The IRS also claims “[t]here were no negative taxpayer consequences as a result of this action,” and taxpayers will not be subject to penalties resulting from the IRS’s actions. Perhaps there were no negative consequences for those whose documents were destroyed, and maybe even some benefit if they underreported income.
https://www.crapo.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/weekly-column-why-did-the-irs-destroy-30-million-paper-returns
No.
If you’ve filed, you have records you’ve filed. You also have treasury check info or checks to the irs through your bank.
National Sales Tax....everyone would contribute something.
Get rid of everything other tax.
so question: if there are so many they can’t even process them, why are we being forced to file them?
That was the first question I had.
It would not surprise me in the least.
Im sure all those filings are hand picked and donors to the dnc
That may be why a brother of mine has never received his 2021 refund, and inquiries with the IRS have been met with literally “I don’t know” kind of answers every time.
It’s like when Newman had too much mail and didn’t deliver.
Any bets on if the destroyed fillings align with dem donors who fraudulently received PPP loans ?
There is an unmentioned factor.
The returns in question were apparently paper returns. The electronically filed returns were not and could not be destroyed. The IRS is apparently saying we deal only with electronically filed returns.
In other words, if you have a small business and pay contractors more than $600 in one calendar year, you are supposed to send each contractor a 1099-NEC or whatever, and send copies to the feds. That is supposed to be the source of a match between what you claim as expenses, and the contractors claim as income. If you are small enough, sending paper copies to the government is easier, faster and cheaper than doing it electronically.
What that means is that the government won't bother trying to match the spender's copy to the income claimer's copy. They apparently will rely on intimidation to have most contractors claim the income.
The article would have been vastly improved with an illustration of what an information return is, but that is probably asking too much.
This is really interesting. It seems like millions of CP2000 forms will not be issued because ... the document matching system will not include the information that indicates under-reporting.
Think of it as some more Covid relief?
And more good news is that fewer tax-filers will be hassled by the IRS because of this.