Posted on 10/30/2023 9:24:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Do you remember all of those times that the Democrats wanted metric buttloads more money for the IRS (along with all of the guns and ammunition) but they assured you little people that you had nothing to worry about because all of these resources would be focused on a couple of hundred billionaires? Yeah… good times. Well, you can toss that story out the window along with much else that the government has “assured” us of. The latest tales from the adventures of the IRS coming out of the investigations of the House Judiciary Committee are simply alarming and they involve regular old working-class people, not just Donald Trump or Elon Musk. It turns out that IRS agents have used fake names when dealing with taxpayers and engaged in tactics that definitely constituted harassment. And some of them break the rules with impunity, potentially even in violation of the law. (Washington Times)
The IRS allows its agents to use fake names when they contact taxpayers, according to a congressional report Friday that found the pseudonyms can create a tense and potentially harassing system.
The House Judiciary Committee documented a case in Ohio where an IRS agent showed up at a taxpayer’s home unannounced, lied about his name and the reason for his visit, refused to leave when told to do so by the woman’s lawyer, threatened to freeze the taxpayer’s assets and then filed a complaint against the police when they responded.
Police found the man’s behavior so strange that they initially concluded he was an impostor. It was only after they contacted the IRS‘ inspector general that they learned the man was a real agent using a fake name, “Agent Bill Haus.”
The example described above involving “Agent Bill Haus,” is even stranger than it first appears. (I assume that was an inside gag. “Bill House” of the IRS. Get it?) The woman who was being harassed turned out to not even owe any money in back taxes. They admitted as much to her after the fact. So what was the purpose of the intrusion? Was it just intimidation for some unstated reason?
While the House is investigating this, I think the public deserves a good, long look at the official IRS operating procedures and policies. Is the use of fake names something they put in writing or just some sort of unofficial “tradition” that developed at the agency over time? How often does it happen? Or, if this office that employed “Bill Haus” was some sort of aberration, was the employee and/or their supervisor terminated?
Underlying all of this is a more fundamental question. Who uses a fake name for any reason whatsoever unless it is with the intent to deceive or cover up the fact that they know they are doing something wrong? Sure, we could make exceptions in the case of spies or various legitimate exercises of espionage. But we’re talking about the Internal Revenue Service. If a taxpayer is contacted by them it’s already a traumatic enough experience. We have a right to know who we are dealing with in case there are any issues or we feel we need to escalate the matter to their superiors. This is completely unacceptable.
If the police or the FBI show up at your door for any reason they are expected to display a badge so they can be identified. (Exceptions are made for emergency response situations, but they will still have to be identified later.) IRS agents are not sent in to resolve hostage situations or stop a killer in their tracks. There is no point at which they should fail to have and produce appropriate, authentic identification and reveal their name. I want to know how deep this story goes and everyone should demand the same.
“The Dems wanted Metric buttloads more money!”
Lol!
A new unit of measurement.
The IRS is the designated US Gestapo, no rules and your guilty unless you spend lots of money to prove your innocence. That’s exactly how it was designed and structured to work. You can thank a Rothschilds for the IRS.
All constitutional rights are suspended when the government wants money from a target.
Well, I’ll be darned. I would never have guessed that if worded as a Jeopardy Question!
Outrageous! LORD have mercy on us all!
All government employees and elected officials should have regular polygraph exams, paid for by the individual being tested.
That's why I love FR. You never know what you will learn.
Probably due to threats to IRS employees from taxpayers...public-facing IRS employees get to use a “Stage Name”. Although the “IRS Taxpayer Advocate” says that their ID (for “home visits”) will have their real? full name on it:
Anyone inside your home who has gained entry with a story, and then once inside changes to a completely different person with a different reason for being there should expect to be treated like a home invader. Shotgun point, proned out, and a call to 911. The slightest resistance or aggression should be addressed as the deadly situation it is. It’s likely to be a rapist, robber, escapee, serial killer… you name it.
LOL !
And I am not THE Reverend Wright.
A surprise IRS visit turns super lefty Matt Taibbi into a Republican.
https://www.racket.news/p/thanks-to-a-politician-who-did-his
I was using my real name on Twitter. Then I thought, that’s probably not a good idea.
This will embolden hordes of scammers, because this sort of behavior basically means the public will have no way of knowing if the aggressive, threatening man at their door really is an IRS agent or just a scammer posing as such. Genius. /s
Like in Putin’s Russia, Obama’s America, and by many other dictators, IRS is the best tool known to Governments to harass opponents.
“nothing going on here!”
“We just need to check on your taxes?”
are we all govt agents?
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We live with a tyrannical gooberment. That is all. Somewhere there may be due process but it is either too late or too expensive to reach. This must end somehow.
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