On an ABC News video that I found on Yahoo, a clip from a news reel reported that the IRS has recently admitted to a MAJOR boo boo.
The IRS accidentally payed 200 million dollars in spurious tax refunds. But investigators of the treasury say that it was more like 300+ million that was shelled out to tax cheats. Experts say that the blunder will cost honest taxpayers a bundle.
Apparently the computer software system that the IRS was using failed to detect bogus tax exemptions and other red flags as it was supposed to. The fraudulent claims would not have slipped under the radar, had the IRS not disabled their back-up system, this even though the makers of the software said that all the glitches would not be worked out in time for tax season.
Of course, being the hard-nosed lot that they are, the IRS decided to ignore the warnings of the software maker, and used the faulty software anyway.
I think that, since tax payers have to pay for mistakes they make on tax forms, maybe the IRS should foot the bill for their mistake. BUT NO!!!!
Instead the 320 million dollar bill has been passed down to honest tax paying citizens.
The IRS has become a dictatorship, and there is nothing that honest people can do to fight it.
Have any of you ever been investigated for tax problems? Well I have, and I can tell you that they are convinced of your guilt, and the normal legal mandate of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ goes out the window.
The IRS does everything in its power to make the process of proving yourself innocent as difficult as possible. They ignore your phone calls until deadlines have passed. They tell you that if you want to talk in person to someone, you have to travel out of state. They speak to you as though you are a lying, unintelligent, dirt-bag. And there is NOTHING you can do about it.
I speak from experience, when I was a food server in college I was diligent about claiming every single dollar I made, so that I would never have to worry about getting busted. But my honesty did me no good. The IRS came into the corporate office of my restaurant branch and said that all the servers were making 25% to 30% tips on every bill, and that since they had not equivalent taxes, they were all being audited.
Obviously this percentage was ridiculous, imaginary, and completely unrealistic. And the IRS guy was miraculously unavailable for contact. In fact, it seemed that nobody was available to discuss anything, they just kept raising the interest on what I “owed”.