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IRS sets the record straight: We’re going after tax evaders, not honest Americans: Op-Ed
Yahoo Finance ^ | 8/25/22 | Charles P. Rettig

Posted on 08/27/2022 3:25:35 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: NautiNurse

This is the other side of “Defund The Police”.

Obama’s National Police Force.

These people are Satan incarnate.


21 posted on 08/27/2022 4:04:33 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: roving

Haha you expect too much from country club swamp repubs.


22 posted on 08/27/2022 4:06:18 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to kep USA viable.s)
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To: Libloather
IRS sets the record straight: We’re going after tax evaders, not honest Americans: Op-Ed


23 posted on 08/27/2022 4:08:05 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Libloather

To a hammer, everything is a nail.


24 posted on 08/27/2022 4:08:21 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Thats for sure...

Ebay for example used to have an approved threshold of $20,000 before a 1099 was generated to the IRS. Thanks to some of the first FJB legislation, that number was reduced to $600.
Instant tax increase + onerous record keeping etc for the sellers.

Same thing CA did to attack the “gig” economy...NaziP musta liked it.


25 posted on 08/27/2022 4:08:49 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Libloather

Will those 87,000 new auditors have QUOTAS?


26 posted on 08/27/2022 4:08:53 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: PubliusMM

My thoughts exactly. I’d love President Trump to run on supporting a consumption tax and abolishing the IRS forever in 2024.


27 posted on 08/27/2022 4:10:34 AM PDT by FLNittany
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To: Libloather

Expect the irs to say the truth? It is now under the control of a fascist administration and has as its goal to extract every cent possible from the people who still are working productively.


28 posted on 08/27/2022 4:11:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First! Bring America back! We're being governed by fascists.)
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To: Libloather

So when do you go after Al Sharpton?


29 posted on 08/27/2022 4:29:23 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: Libloather

Show me a man and I will show you a tax code violation.


30 posted on 08/27/2022 4:31:10 AM PDT by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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To: Gaffer

My tax attorney made an error last year...and as it turned out, the IRS owed me a small amount as I overpaid taxes. They went over that return with a fine tooth comb hoping to find something. They did. Thanks so much for your help irs.


31 posted on 08/27/2022 4:32:19 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Libloather; wardaddy
Somebody like Lois Lerner will be their general.

At the county level, the new and barely trained armed IRS agents will get a list of conservative Republican business owners who are political donors.

Their orders will be to find something, anything, from a prepared list of tips, to shut them down, to ruin them financially, to arrest them, to jail them, to destroy them.

"Proving the case" will not matter, it will just be pure Lawfare, to bankrupt the victims.

Anybody who doesn't see the bitter reality of this IRS expansion at this point in American history is a Pollyanna living in LaLaLand.


32 posted on 08/27/2022 4:35:51 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Mmmm, oh yeah, that’s right…where is the Jennifer Lawrence meme?…


33 posted on 08/27/2022 4:37:52 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Libloather

Using the tax code to “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” is dead simple since no two accountants can actually agree on what it says. How often do you hear “ the irs is interpreting …”


34 posted on 08/27/2022 4:38:26 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Libloather

So what am I to believe? Multiple cases in history or these mealy-mouth promises and platitudes? The ‘D’onkey Party’s sainted FDR used the IRS all of the way back in the 1930s! Since then it has been LBJ and BHO, all with NO PUNISHMENT!


35 posted on 08/27/2022 4:40:27 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: Libloather

Six months from now there’ll be new definitions for “tax evaders” and “honest”. Add to the list along with “recession”, “vaccine”, etc.


36 posted on 08/27/2022 5:02:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: Libloather

Let me take a shot at unpacking this. Someone who is following the law, but “not paying his ‘fair’ share” is breaking the “law.” I used the word law in the same sentence twice, but it has two different meanings given the bias of the person interpreting whether you are paying “your fair share.”

Also, the reason the IRS targets the middle class is the middle class can’t afford the specialized legal and accounting services necessary to find the exceptions which are nearly infinite. Therefore, the return on investment of IRS time is much greater on the middle class than on the wealthy.

I had an audit after I took a twenty-thousand-dollar deduction for legal services. At stake was whether the lawsuit was about theft or conversion. For one, I could take the deduction, but for the other I couldn’t. Since I knew this would happen, I had the accountant and lawyer write a letter for my files explaining why it was the one and not the other. (Due to the narrow difference any reasonable person could claim the opposite.) The kicker was, I kept the audit open for an entire year, thus ruining the agent’s closure stats. Finally, he let me go with my interpretation. Did I pay “my fair share?” Well, not according to liberals. I can tell you the agent was fuming.


37 posted on 08/27/2022 5:02:53 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Libloather

The fact that they have to SAY this, is proof enough that there is EVIL afoot.


38 posted on 08/27/2022 5:06:28 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Libloather

what’s all the ammo for?

Tax Accountants and Tax Lawyers?


39 posted on 08/27/2022 5:10:53 AM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935t)
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To: Gen.Blather

Soon it will be fuming armed agents....what could go wrong?


40 posted on 08/27/2022 5:12:22 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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