I worked for the IRS for 14 years, but that was 30+ years ago. I see nothing has changed. Many times I was ordered by managers to take some enforcement action against a taxpayer, that I knew was illegal. When I protested and refused the managers uniformly replied “We’re the IRS, we can do anything we want.”. I’m not a lawyer, but I had to pull out the U.S. Code and show them the section of the law that applied, and they told me to do it anyway.
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