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I think the IRS is very wrong to do what they do to the average working person. I owe the government, but I started out owing them 8500 dollars. I have been paying them 200 a month since 1992 and I'm still paying. My calculations show I have paid 15 thousand dollars and they say that I still owe them 8700. Something is very wrong with this. How many other people are they doing this to and why?
Prior to doing business with a foreign entity, I retained a high profile IRS tax specialist to advise. After conducting the business, someone with the criminal investigation division tried to get me indicted on criminal charges. It is obvious he did not understand the code. This did not deter him from huge wide spread confiscation of documents and my cost of $92,000 to date in defense cost. I ultimately had to hire an expert to explain to the US Attorney the facts of law. I still don't know if it's over, but I am. After 30 years in business (always paying taxes of every sort) I am now having to sell due to the huge attorney fees. I am broke. The IRS cannot yet explain why they had the off the wall notion they did about the meaning of the code they may still be attempting to prosecute/persecute me for.
In 1982/83 I went through a divorce and was laid up in the hospital for six months after a major auto accident. I failed to file my taxes for those two years and did not go back to straighten out my IRS obligations until 1989. By then I had re-established my career and felt secure enough in my life to face up to my past indiscretions and mistakes. I retained a CPA to help me compile my returns and sent them off to the IRS. The next thing I knew my paycheck was attached and my checking account was cleaned out. When I went to my CPA to find out what had happened, he informed me that he didn't know, and was as surprised by the action as I was. Upon further investigation he found that the IRS had filed my returns for me for those two years (Congress gave them that authority), and with interest and penalties the IRS claimed that I owed them more than $97,000. It would serve little purpose to itemize the absolute hell the IRS has put me through since then. I have gone from openly fighting them to absolute submission. I have no future, but to pay the IRS whatever they demand. My credit is destroyed. I am nearing the end of my working career and the IRS has taken every little bit I have put away for retirement. They don't send me any accounting except when they come out and attach my property (which they claim is theirs). The IRS has informed me that with interest and penalties and my present payment plan I'll never pay off my debt to them. Will they go after my children when I'm gone? Our Congress, the people we elect to run our country have created this monster. They have allowed these injustices to be perpetrated upon the citizens of this country. The IRS acts outside of our justice system with immunity, and there is no recourse to redress grievances. Is the Congress of the United States also powerless before the apparently omnipotent IRS or do they just not give a damn?
June '96 I filed for a divorce, it was finalized Feb'98. Mar'97 filed my single IRS return and had the tax preparer verify what was reported by my husband on our 1995 joint return. I was advised he did not report income on a Lawn Service started that year. Per my attorney, I immediately reported this to the IRS, advising them of the situation and how I could be reached.
The IRS now says I am responsible for $50,000 in under reported taxes, fines, and penalties for his business.
I was advised by the auditor that if "fraud" were considered the penalty could be accessed at a higher fee. The IRS will not cooperate with me, even thought I have cordially supplied them with all information available to me.
Previously, the IRS told me under "innocence of spouse" I was not liable for my husbands taxes. I DO NOT understand how they can now refuse to consider that "innocence of spouse" status. I didn't even know the business existed.
As of today, I am still considered liable for his taxes, interest, and penalties!!!
The stories at this site really hit home. My parents have had a horrifying experience with the IRS and I have watched them go through so much because of it. I guess I grew up believing that I would never have to worry about The IRS coming after me because I would always follow the rules and do the right thing. That's how I felt until my parents made a honest mistake that ended up taking their retirement, put a lien on their home and made them go through more grief than any human should endure in a lifetime. The sad thing is that my father should be retired now and must continue to work to pay an IRS dept. that has INCREASED since he began paying $4000 a month 5 years ago! I don't even know how to describe how I feel toward this agency. It makes me physically ill to think about what the IRS has done and will continue to do.
I am currently going through heck with the IRS. In 1994 I did not receive a 1099 from my employer. This 1099 only covered 1 1/2 months of the year (the time frame I was self employed) The rest of the year I worked for the company. So I did receive a W2. I filed my taxes and did not think about the 1 1/2 back in Jan and Feb that I should have received a 1099 for. So 4 years later, I get a letter stating that I owe 1600 plus dollars. Before this letter however, a gentleman working for the IRS called my place of business and threatened the Payroll dept. and hung up on them several times simply because he was told by them that all of this had to be done in writing. I then called him after receiving the letter. After numerous messages left, I finally got a hold of him. He told me to fill out a 1040X and then it would be reviewed. Now, I am being told that I did not fill out all the needed forms so I still owe them a sum of money that they will not disclose to me. It took them 4 months to get back to me, so now I am sure to owe even more in penalties. How does somebody protect themselves against the government?
In the majority of cases there is an apparent commonality (in addition to the blatant and rampant abuse): this agency and the actions of its employees are not held accountable to the same laws by which the rest of us are bound - nor is there any recourse available when laws and civil rights are broken and abused. My family has also been, and still is, a victim of this agency; therefore, I speak from personal experience. I also speak as a former auditor with a state revenue department, and in this capacity had the "opportunity" to work closely with IRS located in our building. The personalities and attitudes pervasive throughout your reports are indicative of the attitudes which I encountered in my dealings with them on a professional level. This web site is most informative and disturbing, yet is a most effective means of letting others know that they are not the only victims. Perhaps it will give them some hope of obtaining satisfaction - or even hope that their "day in court" will come. Your web site could be an effective means of increasing the pressure on Congress, not only to bring to their attention just how deplorable and criminal this agency is, but to convey just how out-of-control the IRS is. I cannot envision reform as an alternative, particularly since this has been a popular "political" theme for many years. For the majority of Americans, probably any plan short of "scrapping" the IRS will not be acceptable. I wish that I had a suggestion for expansion of your site to make sure that your reports, messages/comments, etc. reach our lawmakers. Somehow it must be impressed upon them the destruction and devastation that has occurred at the hands of this agency. Although there have been investigations and testimony, I doubt that the full extent of the unlawful actions of this agency have had the impact to elicit serious thought and actions. Realistically, this agency cannot be reformed. This agency exemplifies the victimization of average American citizen. If this Congress wanted to take on a cause that would be historical and to their credit, they would accept the challenges of disarming the IRS. If the testimonies have left any question in their minds as to the right action to take, then they have no conscience.
I received a notice from the IRS stating that I did not pay sufficient estimated tax. A penalty was assessed. A colleague suggested I file Form 2210, "Underpayment of Estimated Tax. . . ." I got the form and noted that the penalty could be waived by the IRS due to something in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. But, the instructions did not elaborate. I had no idea if or how the act affected my situation. I called and spoke to a man who identified himself as "Mr. H." Mr. H informed me that the TRA of 1997 was a 900-page statute and he "didn't have time" to explain the act to me." I said that I was only concerned with one aspect of the act. He, quite gruffly and very obnoxiously, informed me that the responsibility to interpret the act was mine. I asked why, then, was he answering the phone? He said he was "only doing my job." I asked him what his job was and suggested that his job was to help hapless taxpayers. He hung up.
I recently made an offer of compromise to the IRS. They have rejected the offer I made and have made me a counter offer. The agent has told me they will take my 401K retirement fund investments and the cash value of my life insurance policy I have started to help with my five year old daughter's education. I have been penalized and levied by the IRS for the past twenty years. I have very little money and no personal property because the levies have prevented me from being able to buy. The agent has told me should I not accept this offer that they make me which doubled from my original offer, they will garnish my wages, still take my 401K retirement investments and my life insurance cash value. They also want to take any inheritance my family might leave me. I have filed prompt returns since 1994. I have gotten refunds, which they have taken since that year. The penalties and interest for some of those years are in excess of the amount of money I made for the entire year they penalized me for. When does justice and freedom for all take effect?
The Office of Inspector General, Treasury investigated IRS abuses in the Houston District. The OIG Treasury determined that all IRS employees are afraid of retaliation by management if they speak out about IRS abuses. Retaliation at the IRS is swift and severe. With all the evil that is promoted at the IRS, a agency of the United States Government, how can Americans have the nerve to point fingers at another gov't? IRS Houston District is the poster child of IRS abuse in our country. Yet, IRS management's repression of ethical employees works though the threat of a campaign of terror against the honest IRS employees.
I didn't put my two children's Social Security numbers on the return. Thus, they took away my dependents and my child care benefits. While getting ready to file an amended 1040x for 1996, they decided to clean out our savings accounts. Totaling just over $4000 dollars. This is money My wife and I have saved for medical expenses for the baby we are expecting in August. What kind of country is this? No one should have the right to get money out anybody's bank accounts! This should be against my constitutional rights. If this is how our Government treats its citizens I am ashamed to call myself an American. It's high time the people of the United States stand up and fight this injustice. The IRS must go!
I had gone to Europe to visit an Aunt I hadn't seen in a decade. During my visit she became ill and I had to stay to help take care of her. I had some self-employment income the end of 1996 and wasn't able to file until Nov. 1997 as the paperwork had been put into my storage room. When I returned in late Oct. 97, I noticed had received a letter from them requesting my 1996 return and promptly filed my return, paid the taxes in full, paid interest, and to show good faith paid a 100 dollar late filing fee. A few weeks later I received a letter saying that I owed them $20,000 (the self employment income was $30,000 and out of that I paid around $12,000). They said they would reposes my car, garnish my wages, and possibly prosecute me (It was a form letter !) if I didn't pay. After the initial shock wore off I sat down and figured out what they had done. Included in the new tax bill was a 50% penalty (~6000) AND another ~13,000 in taxes - they mistakenly had added my self employment income in TWICE. I went to a tax person and we filed another return with everything in it and waited. They wrote back saying that they had corrected my account but that I still owe them $20,000 with added interest and penalties !!! I got up enough courage to go down to the IRS local office to put an end to this. I was greeted by a gentleman who apologized and actually filled out a correction form for me. He said that I would have to pay the penalty - which is automatically assessed. I explained my case and received a 'sorry but our hands are tied' reply. I told myself - FINE I PAID IT JUST TO GET THIS OVER WITH. ... Last night I received a letter saying that they are now beginning backup withholding because I haven't paid the $20,000 yet....... WHAT NEXT ????
THE IRS SENT COLLECTION LETTERS, REFUSED TO LISTEN TO ME, DEMANDED MORE MONEY, GARNISH MY BANK ACCOUNT, AND THE RENT CHECK BOUNCED. THE IRS IS A CRUEL GESTAPO ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS OUTSIDE THE LAW. IT IS BIG BROTHER AT IT'S BEST, THE POLITICIANS HAVE TO GET OFF THEIR ASS AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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