Good day all. One of the things that was slipped into the Build Back Broke Lite bill was funding for 87,000 new IRS agents, 70,000+ of them to be armed. There has been discussions on who would actually be audited by these trigger happy goons, with most people saying “Not the rich.” Well, now they have a new target. Other IRS personnel.
Recently it was discovered that quite a few IRS agent’s hadn’t bothered with filing their tax forms or paying the taxes they owe. Now a watchdog is looking into this. Here are the details from the Daily Wire:
The Department of Treasury’s internal watchdog will audit the Internal Revenue Service to ensure that its own agents are paying their taxes.
Well, that will be an embarrassing first. You would think that the very people tasked to make sure everyone pays their taxes, actually pays their own taxes.
The audit was initiated at the request of Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) following a Democrat plan for 87,000 new employees at the tax enforcement agency. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has previously found that hundreds of IRS employees may have failed to pay their own taxes, with some offering excuses such as they didn’t know how. Some were even re-hired for a second stint at the agency after being fired for “willful failure to properly file their Federal tax returns.”
“Ironically, hundreds of employees at the IRS itself may have willfully failed to pay their taxes. More than 300 of these were repeat offenders, yet the tax agency did little to discipline the tax offenders on its payroll,” Ernst said Wednesday. “Before Biden’s army of auditors starts harassing innocent taxpayers, let’s first make sure the tax collectors have paid their own taxes.”
Of course they didn’t discipline them. This is the same agency that went after the Tea Party and other conservative groups and then rewarded the instigator of all this, Lois Lerner with a nice retirement package instead of a criminal referral and indictment.
Ernst wrote to Inspector General J. Russell George this summer voting, (This may be a typo and is probably “noting.” A/W) that his office found in 2019 that 1,250 IRS employees had not paid their tax bills in full or on time, including hundreds of whom were willfully delinquent or repeat offenders, and that the tax collecting agency had “done little to discipline these tax cheats on its own payroll.”
With Democrats and President Biden ramming through legislation to double the size of the IRS workforce, conservatives and even the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office expects more aggressive audits of middle class taxpayers.
“Innocent, hardworking Americans should not be subjected to unfair and costly IRS audits when the agency is ignoring tax cheats on its own payroll,” Ernst wrote.
That is going to blow up in the faces of everyone. The number of people hired is bad enough, but most of them will be carrying guns, and I suspect, won’t be all that families with the tax code. When these armed thugs start going after people, and they will, you can expect shooting to happen. Without a doubt, you will see at least one “Raid team” if this does blow up, being completely wiped out.
The IG responded that at her request, it would audit the department to find out how many employees are not “fully compliant on their Federal tax obligations” and the number of current workers who were brought back after being fired or retiring following performance issues, including failure to fully pay their taxes.
Well, that’s awfully nice of them. What I want to know is what will happen to those they find are actually breaking the laws? I suspect it will be the usual…nothing. Oh a couple of examples will be made, but most will just go on as they are now.
The 2019 IG report said that IRS agents are required to be removed from their jobs for “willfully” failing to file or understating their taxes. But following a bureaucratic process filled with union protections, out of 1,250 cases in 2017, the IRS found that only 90 were “willful,” meaning the IRS agents “should have known” how to file their taxes properly.
Just another reason to end unionization of government workers.
For 15 of the offenders in 2017, it was not their first time being caught for tax misconduct, but they were not fired previously because the IRS said it wasn’t “willful.” Some employees said that they “forgot” to claim Form 1099 income, and “four employees cited an inability to properly use e-file software, such as TurboTax,” the report said.
I use Turbotax myself to file my taxes, and the only real issue I’ve ever had required me to call in and work with tech support for a couple of hours. (This was years ago) For simple returns, and mine aren’t, it usually only takes an hour or so. The main problem is that the United States Tax Code is a disaster and, in my opinion, unconstitutional. It’s virtually impossible to comply with it, and that is the whole idea. (Has anyone ever gone after the actual tax code in court?) These are the people who are supposed to be auditing corporations and the “Rich” and they can’t even do their own taxes?
The IRS’ Labor Relations department did not seem to try very hard to get rid of bad employees, the report said. For example, it failed to include evidence of past misconduct in paperwork that would determine whether the employees would be fired or not.
What would you expect from a corrupt government agency?
In a 2017 report, the IG found that the IRS–which cross-references databases to catch ordinary Americans underreporting their income–did not bother to integrate a database showing HR issues of past employees. As a result, more than 200 employees who were fired for past misconduct — including failing to pay their taxes or falsification of government records — were hired a second time in 2015 or early 2016. “Some of these employees held positions with access to sensitive taxpayer information,” the report said.
One of the first things the new congress should do, provided the Republicans do take control of the house and senate, is repeal that section, (Actually the entire Build Back Broke law needs to be repealed), that funds the 87,000 new, trigger happy IRS agents. Then they need to look into actually defunding the Internal Revenue Service and coming up with a new tax code. Of course, the Communazis will fight this tooth and nail, however, I think canceling the new personnel will be fairly easy to do.
As for the ones who don’t file their taxes? I do believe that is against the law, so how about doing unto them what they like to do unto all the rest of us? Indictment, prosecution and jail.
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