Posted on 02/28/2014 10:40:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
Four employees at a tax preparation office on Detroit’s east side have been wounded in a shooting after a dispute over a refund check. […]
The shooting was reported shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday at Tax City Tax Service.
Deputy Police Chief Rodney Johnson said the woman being sought became upset when her tax refund wasn’t ready yet. …
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It was over some EITC check.
Come on, it's DETROIT.
Who actually PAYS taxes there?
Most likely some big EIC check all right.
Ding ding ding
We have a winner.
I’ll double down and guess the shooter was the woman’s babys sperm donor tagging along to get some cash for drugs.
There’s 4 people in Detroit?
For some oddball reason, Guns N Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” is stuck in my brain.
I’d guess that in that area with that person, it WAS an EITC check and I’ll bet it was on the order of about $5000...
Clarification, not over an EITC check. Over a Refund Anticipation Loan based on turning over the EITC refund to Tax City for preparation and loan costs. They weren’t gonna cut a loan check until her refund cleared, I’m guessing.
Years ago, a buddy of mine and me were in rural Alabama and he had to stop in one of these old shotgun general stores that backed up to a defunct rail line. All the shotgun shops along the rail line had a loading dock to unload from the cars.
Anyway, we were there for an hour, and we must have seen at least 50 people, nearly all poor black residents who came in with a government EITC check. He’d take the check, go upstairs to a huge safe and bring down WADs of cash to them. I’m guessing that he took a hefty cut for cashing them.
“Over a Refund Anticipation Loan...”
No, those don’t exist anymore. That place might have some financial product in place, but there are not more pure RALs. The Feds stopped them for being usurious.
I guess we can see what that caused here then
I was having my taxes done last week in an office that mostly has clients that get refunds even larger than anything they paid in. It's fun to overhear their phone calls and interactions with other clients.
One big issue is that when they claim dependents they have to prove the children are theirs legally or at all. Others are the amounts of money they claim for things and where they live. After the return is done, they have to verify everything, submit it, and give a date for the refund that can only be an estimate. Some clients have it delivered to the tax company; many don't have checking accounts or mail delivery that's reliable.
Why do I go there? With a legitimate and little-bit-confusing return, they give it a lot of attention to get it done correctly.
Can I believe that someone would shoot a tax preparer? Yeah, some of these folks can't get past blaming the person in front of them for any problem that occurs.
People loved those things, but I imagine some folks got very jammed up with them, if the expected refund did not actually materialize.
Wealth distribution: ugly at both ends.
Personally, I’d have rather the Loan sharks have gotten the usurious proceeds than the EITC leeches.
Myself, I don’t call an EITC check, credit or deposit a REFUND in any shape form or fashion.
The very name, Earned Income Tax Credit, is a vile contortion of honesty, and it is nothing but income redistribution, period.
These people didn’t EARN sh!t to get any refund from.
There were 28 million EITC recipients in 2013.
What you saw were no good EITC leeches. Of course they didn’t pay any income taxes. Not one frigging dime. They didn’t even make enough to pay any. But the government GIVES them a refund that is based on some devious calculation that pretends they paid something in and therefore ‘get’ something back.
They were getting part of what YOU paid in taxes is what was going. Effing leeches.
It infuriates me to no end to think that what I paid in taxes is simply given to those who pay nothing.
So now not only do they get an EITC refund, but free healthcare to remove the bullets.
What is the purpose of working again?
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