Adoptive Parents. Conservatives. Christian groups. Jewish groups.
Why is the IRS persecuting Adoptive Parents?
Because when parents adopt a child, 2 things are true:
1. The child wasn't aborted.
2. The government "loses control" of the child as the family "gains control" of the child.
No word yet on home schoolers in the IRS scandal. I bet they were targeted as well.
Or maybe there is just a huge amount fraud in this deduction...
I can see where that kind of credit could invite fraud.
The question is, did the IRS find a lot of fraud justifying the 70%.
What would make common sense, is for the IRS to compare against other government records and flag those where no record of an adoption exists.
Wait until the IRS requires information about health insurance. There comes a time that we just have to say, “NO!”
Correct.
They want to squelch demand for adoption because if that demand grows abortion will decrease.
Evil is a real force in these people.
I am one of the 70%.
The one thing that has REALLY hampered adoption is the Hague Adoption Convention. It deals with international adoption, but making that MUCH more difficult puts pressure on domestic adoption as well.
Something else that is mind boggling. When IRS finds that FRAUD HAS occured on a return by listing children that the taxpayer does not really have:
They will disallow the credit that they were looking at.
In other words- If they are auditing the Child tax credit and find that someone made up a couple of extra kids. they will disallow the Child Tax Credit while at the same time allow the full EITC refund based on the amount of kids claimed. They don’t even look for other credits that would be disallowed if someone claims falsehoods. Only the credit they are checking for.
That was in a TIGTA report. TIGTA puts out reports all the time. Some of them are pretty incredible to read.
Add adoptive parents to the list.
How evil!
This sounds terrible.
It is clearly time to replace the income tax with a simple direct tax that gets rid of all this complexity, expense, and opportunity for any misguided politicians to abuse (abuse us, that is).
I say this as someone who has nothing but respect for the courteous help at the IRS. Everyone there should be offered an equivalent or better job to be sure! But, as a country we definitely need to change to a far less burdensome (and far less susceptible to abuse by those we elect) system.
That’s because adopting families get ridiculous tax breaks. I know a family that has years of credits, and won’t pay any federal tax.