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IRS Abuse Report #313
Date: Mon Dec 1 22:48:23 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: WM

My problems with the IRS started in 1992. After serious personal problems, I was unable to stay completely focused on managing my practice. The result of these actions forced me into foreclosure on my office building. The foreclosure then created a massive PERSONAL income tax problem. This summer, the agent closed my business for one week. He told me what I needed to do to reopen, but changed it every time I met those conditions. He allowed me to reopen, but every time I get back on track, he seizes my accounts and payments and I fall behind again. My credit is ruined, and I don't have funds to make my practice grow. So I'm stuck in this nightmare. He can't close me, just make my life a nightmare.

In addition, the agent has come into my office, waved his badge in front of a reception room full of patients, identified himself as an IRS agent and demanded to see me immediately. I was told on another occasion that if I didn't give him all the funds in my IRA that he would close my business. I had been advised that he couldn't do that, and when I challenged him on that point, I was told that I was correct. However, he told me that if I didn't give him the funds, he would close me anyway, it would take months to reopen, and I would have no business by then.


IRS Abuse Report #314
Date: Tue Dec 2 11:05:08 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: SH

I am really scared of this group! They are way out of control. I received a Notice of Deficiency last week because of their error. They doubled my salary for last year and completed their own 1040 for me. I've tried to tell them that they have messed up the amounts that I made last year, but they refuse to listen to me. I even have the correct amount on my W2, but they refuse to admit that they have made an error. So now I am off to Tax Court, which I will probably lose because of the corrupt Tax Court Judges in this country! The media is also to blame for the fear that US Citizens have regarding the IRS. They perpetuate the fear! The IRS is above the law! They neither adhere or even follow their own laws. They are the most corrupt, evil group of the century! The IRS is a killer of the American dream and they must be stopped before more peoples lives are ruined by this evil group!


IRS Abuse Report #315
Date: Wed Dec 3 0:25:27 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: RP

Sue them. Sue them and make them pay. Sue them and make them stop.

I was embezzled by a dishonest employee who absconded with 60K plus and left 60K in unrecoverable billing. The employee taxes were not paid. I and my partners paid them, drawing money from our own retirement accounts, credit cards and other resources, as well as limiting what we took from the business. But due to poor judgment on my part, I did not pay my personal taxes in order to pay for the business expenses. The IRS sent collection letters. I obtained an attorney to negotiate with the IRS. All efforts failed. Because they claimed I owed 50K, they garnished my wages. The IRS believed that I was withholding income, evading taxes, and refused to negotiate with my attorneys.

Demoralized, I walked from my business, almost committed suicide, put my family through hell, and took a job much below my ability to earn. I lost my business, almost my life, my respect for the government agencies, and became embittered at the complexity and inaccuracy of the IRS agenda. There was no reason to go after me with the vengeance they used. As a measure of good faith, I had been making voluntary payments of $500 per month, showed good faith in getting my house in order by using my attorneys and accountants, and attempted to negotiate with the IRS. All was stalemated by one individual in the Olympia, Washington office who believed that I was worth more than I was. Now, I am poor, lost my house, lost my credit, lost all that I had worked for, have no savings, and have nothing to give to my children for their college. I have struggled not to feel bitter, but I am.


IRS Abuse Report #316
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:37:51 -0500
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: JD

The Congressional hearings were a 'commercial' for IRS which reinforced these points:

  1. If you fall into IRS scrutiny, the US Constitution is suspended, and:
    a. your economic life can be terminated with no redress
    b. IRS will seize assets and wages with the stroke of a key. All you get is a voice on an 800#.
    b. any claim of hardship due to illness, unemployment, etc., will be ignored. -- witness the many reports shown on this newsgroup.
    c. IRS personnel will treat you with sarcasm, attitude, and arrogance. It's their job.
    d. IRS will set all the rules, you be assimilated. See b. above.

  2. This treatment is reserved for the middle class and lower middle class.

  3. Congress does not care to reverse this treatment.
Evidence: how many citizens have written their Congressman for help in a personal tax situation and GOTTEN HELP? How many have not received even a reply?


IRS Abuse Report #317
Date: Mon Dec 8 22:00:52 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: HR

After current IRS Hearings on IRS Abuse, I have regained my anger after about 4 years after being forced to settle with the IRS on a 100% Penalty action.

I lived in fear under threats of losing my home, job, and wages until I agreed to give up. I have slept better, but it cost me $65,000 for something that I should not have had to pay.

I had to move, sell my home and borrow from hard-working relatives in order to rid my life of the tyranny of the IRS.


IRS Abuse Report #318
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 14:01:48 EST
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: PS

Congress spends untold millions on "pork" projects that benefit favored clients, while the IRS liens or seizes the homes of 70,000 citizens, rendering them destitute and homeless. And Clinton professes concern for the plight of the homeless, while refusing to support any meaningful tax reform.

We need an end to this hypocritical thievery in the name of government. A law prohibiting the IRS from liening and seizing homes would halt the making of 70,000 government-created homeless families, the victims of government's disgusting criminalities.


IRS Abuse Report #319
Date: Mon Dec 8 11:06:46 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: JA

In 1994, my company had been given a refund of $53,000, approved by California, Texas and Pennsylvania IRS. In May, 1994 the Revenue Agent we were dealing with retired and my account was transferred to Lancaster, PA IRS Office. The new revenue agent immediately stopped the credit and charged this back to our account. While doing this she took an extra $23,000 of funds that were paid our account. A few months latter she came into our offices and ordered my accounting clerk that she must file our 941 forms in three states, and send the employees taxes to those three states. The revenue agent then levied my company for the taxes in these other states. My wife and I were assessed over $245,000 each for recovery penalties. I finally hired an ex-agent of the IRS. It has taken him over a year to track down the money that was paid into these different states where the IRS had placed these funds into suspense accounts. In 1996, this same revenue agent, which I was required to send my 941 reports was filing her own 941 reports showing twice the amount owed. The IRS has just levied all our bank accounts, stopping our business. The American people must take legal action to bring this agency back in line.


IRS Abuse Report #320
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:40:10 -0500 (EST)
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: MW

In 1990 I worked for an employer as an employee. He filed a 1099 claiming I was an independent contractor and not an employee. I contacted IRS investigations in Van Nuys CA who prosecuted the employer and collected over $300,000 in fines and penalties which I was told would be used to offset any penalties assigned to me. Later I would be told that IRS criminal investigations never communicates with IRS audit departments and that any money recovered from a criminal investigation go to the US Treasury and not to the victims of the crime. The IRS would not give us a clear guideline on whether to file returns as an employee or independent contractor for Calendar Year 1990. We got different answers from everyone at IRS that we spoke to. We finally filed as an employee based on the larger number of responses we received from the IRS to that effect. The IRS rejected our return and filed one of their own. An auditor, Clifford Chase, claimed to not be able to get in touch with me and filed a warrant for my arrest on tax evasion charges. We finally got in touch with him and arranged an audit where he threw out every deduction I had (though we provided legal chapter and verse backing up our deductions) and demanded an additional $16,000 in taxes plus penalties and interest, in addition to the $36,000 I had paid through my employer (on a gross salary of $102,000). We challenged the audit and the IRS became very nasty. At first, the auditors refused to attend our scheduled appointments for appeal. On one occasion myself and accountant (at $120/hour plus travel) were left sitting in the waiting room for four hours before we were told that the IRS auditor 'was not coming in today because he was mowing his lawn'.

After this, I could no longer afford an accountant or attorney so I decided to just pay the additional taxes. I borrowed money from family and sold off personal belongings to get the required amount. When I went in to pay the taxes, the IRS refused to accept the money on two occasions (payments by cashier check) saying that at this point I could NOT pay the taxes and had to 'follow their procedures' before I would be allowed to pay and then I could only 'pay when they say it is OK to do so'. Their 'procedures' led to a Tax Court judgment which I was forced to sign after an appeal. We were told that we could either sign the judgment or the IRS would show up in seven days with a US Marshall and confiscate our home and all our personal belongings. It was made VERY CLEAR that we DID NOT have any choice in the matter. We were also told on several occasions that the IRS would NOT negotiate any payment or settlement until we signed this judgment, so we signed. This whole procedure took 5 years. In this time, our penalties and taxes increased to over $45,000. During this time, the IRS confiscated all our tax refunds and we had made additional payments of around $13,000 by mailing in checks to the IRS, all of which were always applied to interest and never to the tax principle amount. The final tax judgment was for $27,000 + at which time the IRS put a lien on our house and garnished my wages. During this time, I was threatened by the IRS on numerous occasions. On one occasion in Laguna Beach after I had filed a protest, as I was getting into my car, a lady came by and shouted at me that if we continued to protest their actions, everyone in my family tree would be audited for the next five years. In addition one gentleman at the IRS in Santa Ana casually asked if I had life insurance and for how much. When I said that I did have a $200,000 policy and asked him why he wanted to know, he suggested that the IRS should consider killing me to collect my insurance money rather than deal with my protests. When I called his supervisor, the man denied ever saying such a thing and was backed up 100% by his supervisor who called me a liar.

They take $1700 per month out of our $3600/month GROSS income leaving almost nothing for my family to live on. As a side note, I once spoke to a gentleman who claimed to be a retired IRS auditor. He said that what the IRS does is at the time they get a case, they check out your financial history and then decide how much total money they think they can get from you. From that point on, they squeeze you and torment you until they get every last dime of that amount. He told me this 'after the fact' and the procedures and methods he described were exactly what had happened to me over the past five years, almost to the letter.

At this point, my wife and I have taken out a second and third mortgage on our home. Unfortunately, the company we both work for is going out of business and we are going to have to file bankruptcy (which will still not release the IRS judgment because even though the case is seven years old, the judgment is only one year old and cannot be released from a bankruptcy.

The final tally is that out of a $102,000 salary, I have paid or will pay nearly $98,000 in taxes, penalties and interest plus I paid another $15,000 in accounting and legal fees trying to fight this situation. The final stab was that it wasn't enough that the IRS had to add another $16,000 in taxes to my 1990 calendar year, they then decided to audit my 1991 taxes and added another $7000 there as well, throwing out every claimed deduction here as well. In addition, in 1993 and 1994, I brought cashier checks to the IRS in Santa Ana offering to pay the taxes in full, but the payments were REFUSED by the IRS which led to nearly $35,000 of ADDITIONAL penalties and interest being charged to my account which would not have been if they had accepted my payments. Add to this the nearly $13,000 they took from me in confiscating tax refunds and other payments I had made and you begin to see just how out of control this situation has become. The IRS has destroyed our lives, ruined my career and are in the process of bankrupting my family. All for something I didn't have anything to do with or any control over.


IRS Abuse Report #321
Date:Mon Dec 15 1997 17:11:06
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: WD

I'm sorry I don't know how to put into words the unnecessary destruction of a family, their careers, their good name, their whole lives. Maybe you can help me categorize humiliation, terror, bankruptcy, divorce, and unfair injustice.


IRS Abuse Report #322
Date: Tue Dec 16 14:45:31 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: RJ

In Oct. 1993 I was laid off. My position required me to travel all over the globe training military customers in the operation and maintenance of the F-16. Due to changes in the IRS code all moving expenses that were incurred were passed on to me as income even though I was required to move because of my job. When I was laid off, I virtually had no place to live and had difficulty finding another job. I had to cash in my 401k plan in order for me and my wife to survive. At the beginning of 1994 the IRS demanded an extreme amount of income tax that amounted to more money than I had made for the entire previous year. This was because the company inflated the moving expenses they reported along with the cashing in of my 401k had placed me in an unbelievable income tax bracket. And not having the means to pay, the IRS has placed a lien on my otherwise excellent credit. Starting in 1994 I decided to go back to school to get my Engineering Degree so I could get appropriate employment. Since then I have barely survived for four years due to the IRS lien. I cannot buy anything or get a decent job because the IRS has given me a bad credit rating even though I have always paid my bills. The IRS has never given me the opportunity to talk with them and explain what is going on and the hardship I am going through. I am now 48 years old and have almost no hope of a future due to these unusual circumstances beyond my control.


IRS Abuse Report #323
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:15:47
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: JO

An illegal immigrant is allowed an interview/evaluation with an immigration officer, followed by a judicial hearing. And an appeal. Only then can he/she be deported. [ref: Dec 21 NY Times]

Too bad US Citizens aren't treated similarly when IRS is involved:

A US Citizen can have salary and other assets summarily seized by IRS/Treasury without a court order, a hearing, or an appeal. And, AFTER the seizure occurs, no matter what hardship may be involved, there is no _reasonable_ way to get due process.

If you have had IRS trouble, and have written your Senator or Congressman, have you noticed that the response, if any, has been that these representatives have said that they 'have asked IRS to review' your situation? They are apparently powerless to stop IRS action. There are no provisions for hearings?! Just whatever the IRS wants to do.

Why do we allow this? This, lack of due process?

It certainly is time to organize, to lobby, to get our local representatives to change IRS from what it is, to an accountable agency, subject to due process rules of justice that is supposed to be our guarantee. IRS is operating outside the bounds of the US Constitution, and this must be legislated to a halt, now.

Write, fax, phone your representatives, asking them for change, and if you want to be specific, then demand that IRS seizures be subject to PRIOR hearing/court order, with the taxpayer involved PRIOR to seizure authorization by a court of law. US Citizens demand to be protected under the US Constitution.

Let's not drop this issue, it is too big, and too damaging to millions of people, US Citizens.


IRS Abuse Report #324
Date: Sun Dec 21 10:03:44 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: SE

The IRS informed my that THEY have taken it upon themselves to change my filing status on my 1996 income tax return, from head of household to single. They have also stated that I can not claim my 2 youngest children under Earned Income Credit. They have now said that I owe them over $5,000. I am a not-yet-divorced mother of 3 children. My husband left me in 1995 and I raise my children on my own. I worked the whole year and raised my children on less than $15,000. When I went to file my tax return, an H and R block employee informed me that I could claim head of household and Earned Income Credit, (my 2 youngest were 5 and 6 at the time). Why did the IRS take it upon themselves to change my filing status? Why are they harassing a person trying to survive living under the poverty level?


IRS Abuse Report #325
Date: Mon Dec 22 14:55:03 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: SZ

My circumstances are complicated and when I attempt to explain the many 'arms and legs', it causes confusion. This is a much simplified summary. I am a nurse. I have been self-sufficient and self-supporting since age 15. I have always been a model citizen, had excellent credit, never accepted help from anyone, supported an ex-husband voluntarily and have a spotless past. I have moved far in my career and been successful and highly respected by the medical community. In 1991, I thought of a way that would save lives, significantly reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and emergency room visits and save Medicare and private insurance companies large amounts of money. I started a tiny company in my kitchen, using my own moneys. It was a huge and rapid success. After nine months, I brought in a financial expert as my partner because I have no knowledge of finance. Two years later, the company was public and trading on Wall Street and I was the recipient of prestigious awards for my contributions to the improvement of health care. I then discovered my partner had embezzled $2 million through bogus expense reports. I confronted him, notified the government, and he fled to New Zealand. I hired attorneys and it didn't take long for me to learn that he and several insiders used my naivete and trust in order to use and defraud my company. The only funds that they did not steal was my personal $225,000 pension plan. I spent all of that myself during the past three years on relentless investigations, gathering 1500 lb of evidence, paying lawyers to persist in efforts to get the government to follow up on the 1994 criminal referrals that I made, being voluntarily polygraphed, paying lawyers to pursue countless leads I provided to various government agencies. Each pursuit was totally fruitless. I developed a disabling illness and am now bed-ridden. I have no income and have had none whatsoever throughout this entire ordeal, I was solely dependent upon receiving my 1994 tax refund on which I anticipated living frugally for the remainder of my life. The IRS has stolen my $66,000 refund and attached an additional $212,000 fee in addition to undisclosed penalties. Despite having met with me in 1995 and agreeing to accept $5000 and asking for nothing additional, they have decided to hold me accountable beyond their 1995 agreement, and for the tax fraud committed by my previous partner. They denied my appeal this week, for which I provided them with a substantive package of evidence of his guilt and not mine, including several dozen sworn affidavits of witnesses, not one of which they contacted. I discovered his crime, I reported his crime. No efforts have been made to even interview him. I have evidence that would be sufficient for the indictment of no less than six people, all of whom have been ignored by the government. I have done nothing wrong and have repeatedly offered myself to the government for their scrutiny, which they have declined. I have never managed to get any audience from the government to review the evidence. I believe that I have left no stone unturned in my efforts to initiate proper criminal investigations but have met with unexplainable apathy. Now, I am preparing the detailed arrangements for my suicide, in 4 - 6 months, at which time I will be totally penniless. I am organizing loose ends so that my two dogs will have a loving home and someone who will take good care of them. I am a 48 year-old, attractive, loving, giving, talented and vivacious woman who has lived my life very much dedicated to service. I have always offered my outreached hand to anyone who could benefit from my help.... So much for my healing the sick!!!! The truth does NOT prevail and what goes around does NOT come around and the police do NOT protect and serve. This is my penalty for having worked full days and evenings throughout my life, without vacations, always contributing toward the improvement of health care. I will die disappointed, still shocked, and in rage and disgust.


IRS Abuse Report #326
Date: Tue Dec 23 13:24:36 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: AY

I AM A FATHER OF 8 DEPENDENTS. I HAVE BEEN FORCED BY THE IRS TO FILE BANKRUPTCY TWICE. ACCORDING TO THE IRS, I OWE ABOUT NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS. ALL MY CHILDREN LIVE IN MY HOUSE, BUT THE IRS CLAIMS THAT THEY ARE NOT MINE. THE LAST TIME MY WIFE AND I RECEIVED A REFUND WAS 1989.

AT FATHERS PASSING IN 1993, THE IRS KNEW OF HIS PASSING AND MY RESPONSIBILITY TOO BURY HIM, BUT THEY STILL LEVIED MY CHECKING ACCOUNT


IRS Abuse Report #327
Date: Tue Dec 23 23:58:58 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: WC

In 1985, After 21 years of marriage I was divorced, on my own, with three sons. No child support and an ex spouse that ran off with another woman to another state. He had not filed taxes for 5 years before the demise of our marriage, had told me not to take taxes out of my check, he would take them out of his and it would even out at the end of the year. After the back taxes, penalties and interest, and hiring an accountant to re-file for me, I owed over $8,000.I was told nothing would be done about my exhusband. They had me, I was working and they knew where I was. They garnished my salary, and put a lien on anything I had of value. The debt was fianlly paid. The part of this I have the most problem with, is the IRS told me if I had not filed after my ex sent his threatening letter, I could have filed under an exception for ex-wives and wouldn't have owed a dime. I didn't have a clue that such an exception existed -- now they tell me about it after it is too late! This is grossly unfair and wrong.


IRS Abuse Report #328
Date: Sat Dec 27 13:51:48 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: LS

I've been making monthly payments against back taxes for over four years. Now, IRS people are finding me in the computer with a balance owing and writing demanding payment in 10 days. They fail to see any record of my ongoing payments. The most recent incident resulted in the agent setting up a new installment payment agreement as though none existed and sending a demand for a "user" fee, stating I would owe my entire balance immediately if I fail to pay the user fee. This most recent incident occurred at the very IRS center that has been processing my payments and sending me statements every month for over four years! Bottom line seems to be that IRS's computer software is flawed so badly that employees all over the country are spending time and money on witch hunts against people who are making regular monthly payments. Multiply the time and effort spent harassing me by several hundred or several thousand similar situations, and we're talking massive squandering of IRS's operating budget--all because they fail to see anything in the computer except "balance owing." I wonder what other budget-squandering goose chases are going on due to procedural or programming deficiencies!?


IRS Abuse Report #329
Date: Fri Dec 26 14:02:15 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: RM

At the time this started, I was a single parent, raising a daughter free of welfare and trying to give her a better life In 1992, I was audited for 1989. I was disallowed the write-off of expenses in completing a Master's Degree. I sent in tax returns--enough to pay off the debt. The IRS said it was applied to outstanding student loans, then recharged me.

Due to a car accident, I was off work for 1 1/2 years, I was finally able to get disability pay -- it was sent to me in 1 payment. The IRS levied tax on it, stating I failed to claim it as income. I was disallowed a hearing about taxes. I was warned I should contact them and etc. In July I did...the rude, ruthless wonman at the other end would not help me. She hung up on me TWICE. In August, my husband's, my, and my Daughters checking and savings accounts were frozen. I was not notified, my husband left me. Due to the stress I had a severe azthma attack. I made arrangments to pay. I only stopped paying when the amounts demanded were more than I made, and they had threatened and scared my 9 year old over the phone. I have always intended to pay the debt, but now with collection fees and other costs, I will not be debt free from student loans until I am 68 years old!!!! Please help remove this abuse of power!


IRS Abuse Report #330
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:29:41
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: RS

For two months I have been seriously contemplating a lawsuit on my own, but need advice as to how to achieve positive results which could be beneficial to your class action suit and all Americans as well. Since 1995 I've been working through Newt Gingrich's office here in Georgia and have numerous complaint letters about the IRS on file with Newt. At his Town Hall meetings, Newt has warned that overhauling the IRS is a long process because repealing the tax amendment will take 7 years minimum.

My fundamental complaint is not about money, as my pending issue is over two matters totaling $97, which are not due. My complaint is about the IRS's gross mistreatment of U.S. citizens without due process of law, bully tactics, etc. Having responded in writing to each IRS letter demanding payments, the IRS threatened me with two separate tax levies anyway, and demanded my payment within 5 days. In numerous letters, I've urged Newt to do whatever it takes to get results NOW to stop the IRS from unlawful tactics against U.S. citizens. There's no reason to wait for the IRS to obey the law, while the lives and fortunes of some continue to be ruined.

Having achieved no results since August, I feel it is my patriotic duty to report on such continued abuses to the Judicial branch to obtain a Court order mandating the IRS and their computer cease all such unlawful practices threatening "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" without due process.

I also have a great paper trail on my latest IRS problem, which clearly demonstrates how fouled up the IRS's "system" is. I have numerous complaint letters to which the IRS never responded. At the urging of Newt's office, I participated in a problem resolution session in Mid-November, which yielded no result. No reply, no phone call, etc. The IRS's records regarding employee payment dates are all fouled up. IRS has sent numerous letters threatening tax levies, etc. over one matter totaling $22! What really irks me is that I've tried to work within their system and the IRS has rewarded me with letters threatening tax levies over two silly matters totaling $97.

I didn't want the IRS to ruin my excellent credit record over such a small amount of money, so I personally delivered my $97 check to the IRS District Director's office with a protest letter. He never responded in writing. I've never sued anyone, but in this case I want to file a lawsuit to get my money back and embarrass the IRS in the process. Actually, my primary objective is to expose unlawful IRS tactics which I have repeatedly demanded the IRS to stop!

I fail to understand your philosophy of a class action suit, as it appears from your Web page that Federal judges are unsympathetic to such actions. My approach until now has been to do everything I can within the law to embarrass the IRS and its employees with facts about their repeated incompetence, failure to respond when promised, etc. and to demonstrate unlawful action to Newt's staff. I will make no broad claims, but can cite specific cases which reiterate the IRS's unlawful abuse toward me.

I also wrote two letters to the IRS District Director Nelson Brooke, protesting the IRS's threatening letters and charging his agency with violating my civil rights. I also took notes during their highly publicized "Problem Resolution Day" and sent a full report to Newt indicating that many folks never even got through IRS Security to discuss their problem. I also called the local V news media with this report as well. Mr. Brooke tried to call me at work over Thanksgiving. I tried to call him back on December 1 and was lied to by his assistant that he would return on December 2, when I called again. Finally, I was promised he would call me on December 5. He never called; I have voice mail, so there is no possibility that I missed his call. So never had the opportunity to discuss my complaints with him.

I would love to have the opportunity to present my impressive array of facts, reply letters, and written documents which prove I am in the right. It will cost $150 to file suit, plus attorney's fees. I believe that if only 1% of the 100 million taxpayers (I don't know ho many) have legitimate cases of IRS abuse and were to file suit, the courts would be so clogged that the government would be forced to take alternative action to resolve IRS complaints. IRS management is so stupid that their "problem resolution" program has yielded more fuel for me to embarrass them even further.

Can you identify a tax attorney sympathetic to our gripes against the IRS and would be willing to provide modest assistance such as strategic planning at reasonable cost? Even if I lose, it wouldn't break my heart or my pocketbook if I were to give up the $97 I've already paid, the $150 filing fee, and modest attorney's fees. I would like to file suit before year end 1997. I feel I can make substantial progress on the civil rights issue, as the IRS clearly made unreasonable demands. Each time I replied to the IRS very quickly with another letter, but the IRS never kept any of their own self-mandated reply dates. If I were to make progress as a test case on the civil rights issue, I'm certain it would greatly boost your class action suit as well. This is important!

Although I believe I have a strong case, what is you opinion of my overall strategy to file suit myself? Have others tried this strategy? What are the traps to avoid? I will truly appreciate any comments you may have. Thank you.

Also, I heard the tail end of a discussion on Tony Brown's Journal about something called a "214?" whereby citizens can sue IRS employees for failing to do their jobs. It would be pretty neat if I were to sue the IRS District Director or Problem Resolution agent for failing to do their jobs (reply). Where can I get inf. on this, and what showing (damages, incompetence, etc.) would I have to make? Can you provide any strategic advice?

I'm going to hand-carry another letter to the IRS District Director in a Christmas card envelope, to remind him that the IRS still owes me a reply regarding the Problem Resolution meeting I attended five weeks ago, that I continue to demand my money back, that the IRS continues to request forms I gave in person the problem resolution agent, etc. With a copy of Newt, of course.

Please respond. Thank you.


IRS Abuse Report #331
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 21:07:23
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: RR

My wife and I have been continually pursued by the IRS. It is truly amazing. We lost everything, including our health, we have spent countless dollars on so called specialists. They came into our business told us they are going to close us down, seized our bank accounts specifically used for tax reserves, leined us again and again. We gave up destroyed. Then they took all of the business assets and sold them....they still will not answer where and how much...should have taken care of tax liabilities.


IRS Abuse Report #332
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:31:54
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: CC

I just saw this e-mail address and the multiple letters of abuse. I worked for the IRS for three years (only two of which I was actually working and getting paid). I can not even put into words what the IRS has done to me as an employee for exposing their violations and intentional disregard for the laws that protect employees. They are experts at the cover-up game---yet they are not so smart-----they are just cruel, cold hearted people.

There were employment issues, not even issues of mine, in which I vocalized. The story of how my life ended from their games and lies and deceit can not be explained in a page or too. I have lost my home, car, possessions, savings, health insurance, marriage, and I can not get a job.

Oh yeah, it is obvious that all of the complaints and stories I heard while I worked for the IRS must have been true. I had no idea that those stories could even possibly be true, at the time. No doubt, the management of the IRS has misused their authority, ruined lives, ruined the lives of employees who refused to join their violations against mankind, and have totally misused the moneys of the taxpayers (that includes me) for their own benefit and gain, and they have not remained impartial in their selection of which taxpayers to hit the hardest and put forth their eight (usually less) hours a day---they also have little clicks on the outside in which folks that should have their taxpaying but put in a sling for life are let go because---isn't it funny that those folks let go use to be acquainted with the managers or other revenue agents or collections officers?---

Two employees I knew were suffering reprisal for testifying on behalf of themselves or other employees. They would not say anything for fear of becoming a ruined mess like me and near the streets to live.

Then, my spouse has almost sold out for fear that he would be blackwalled from the job market. I am all alone. Everyone is so afraid of the IRS, which by the way, most management employees can not even handle their own finances even though they are supposedly accountants!

These IRS Management and Some Revenue Agents play this game with fervor. It is the only thing they do well--deceive, lie, trick, and damage lives.


IRS Abuse Report #333
Date: Tue Dec 30 8:42:07 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: FC

The IRS was attempting to levy all our assets from 1988 to 1994 when I was forced to file bankruptcy because they had garnished my wife's account which almost caused the end of our marriage. They continue to audit me every year since then.


IRS Abuse Report #334
Date: Wed Dec 31 9:49:33 1997
To: sue@irs.class-action.com
From: TK

I now have a $10,000 bill with IRS, I am in disagreement because it's not the truth. In 1994 is when this started when I heard about IRS billing me and giving me penalties that I will never be able to over come. At first having this bill thrown on me when I tried to stay in compliance with the laws of our land and always being truthful with the IRS. It affects my thinking and is destroying my belief and my life. It's like they are making me out to be a crook. The problem is a technicality in the writing up of a contract for a house I bought, and not that anything was done with dishonor. They are destroying people to get a promotion at the cost of anyone. This is the horrible nightmare I am stuck. I am covered with Psoriasis, this disease has really taken over, it's from stress, nervousness, fear of what to do, and almost covering my body, where pretty soon I won't be able to work, then I'll be on welfare all because IRS won't budge from their decision.




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