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In 1984 I was informed that I owed $583 on my 1983 taxes. I disagreed and we have been fighting ever since. It got to the point that every year I would file, they would take my refund. Last September I got a notice that the IRS said my 1983 tax return had been amended and that I indeed owed nothing. They credited the $583 back to me, zeroing 1983. However they did not credit 16 years of penalties, interest, fines and other miscellaneous fees now amounting to over $17,000. They have taken money from my elderly mother held in trust for me, they have stolen years of my life.
My parents owned a "Mom and Pop" grocery store which did very well - until my father died and the IRS soon thereafter came chasing after my mother for nonexistent taxes, interest and penalties. My mother fought them tooth and nail for 7 years before the IRS gave in and admitted that it was they who made the original error which caused them to come after her in the first place. The damage was done by then though. I saw first hand how my mother lost her faith in her government and the people who staff it. I was 15 when it all started.
A mistaken IRS bill for 1991 of $4800 was cleared, then suddenly the bill reappeared and $4800 was seized from our account. We have been told we will be audited until the year 2002.
I am being abused by the IRS. My paycheck has been levied twice with a third time probable. There has been no court issued order. There has been no judgment in any court. My employer just sends them the money. What happened to the 5th Amendment?
I have served six years in the United States Marine Corps and what I read here makes me burn with anger. I think of the Marines who died on Iwo Jima to preserve the American way of life -- freedom and liberty for all American families. Now I see this quasi-governmental agency, the IRS, terrorizing the families and hard-working taxpayers. It would break the heart of all those who died for our country to think that their children would live under the tyranny of a shadowy governmental overseer. As far as I am concerned, the IRS needs to be abolished - the sooner the better. They are a parasite on our nation's families.
I have been fighting the IRS over my 1994 income tax return for over 4 years now. I paid what they said I owed and I have a receipt. Then, almost a year later I receive a letter saying the original payment was late and the branch examiner assessed a whole year of penaltys and interest. So now they say I owe an additional $2240. Things are out of control and something needs to be done.
I am almost at the point of marching into the 1st IRS office I see and expressing my contempt for them very clearly for the effect they have had on my life and career. I cannot live the rest of my days in fear of being able to live/work and not become a homeless person. Until I go back to work...I have No Money...No Assets...No Vehicle. No Nothing. 2 years ago this month...I got a "Notice Of Intent To Levy" from THEM....I was in Florida...it came from San Diego, CA....I called within the specified time frame and spoke with a "Mr. R."...he seemed real nice. I didn't hear anything for a while...then I got another "Notice Of Intent To Levy"...from Jacksonville FL. I called the given phone number...and spoke to a "Ms. H.". She told me that they "wouldn't take away a carpenter's hammer"...in MY case...My "Hammer" is my guitar. I sighed with relief and she immediately said in a very "wickedly powerful manner"... "It isn't OVER Yet!" She and I agreed to a "tentative" payment plan. ...I called back to the Jacksonville office the following day at the same toll free number and asked to speak to her again...they said that there was "no such person" working there....BUT they had the "tentative agreement" in front of them on computer screen and refused to give me that agreement in writing...My verbal response to that was "OK...I know where I stand, have a good day". ......as time went by...I was under the impression it was being handled...I have been a Musician/Singer since I was 17...I am now 42...somebody else always handled tax forms for me because I do not understand them...and I never even made enough to "owe" taxes until 1983...and then my 2nd wife handled that paperwork...I just signed the forms. After she and I split up...another 1 ½ year lag in employment except for little odd dishwashing or delivery jobs here and there. In 1989...I started working in Florida...steady(for the most part)...as a 1 man band...till I started hiring other people again and wound up marrying a lady singer...we basically maintained steady employment singing/traveling with a booking agent...on the road for 7 years...after all the expenses and expensive equipment that it took to sustain and compete to stay working...we were sometimes STILL borrowing money to get to the next gig. All I know at this point...is...my wife divorced me because I was afraid to go back to work for fear of losing my equipment (which is everything I owned and worked for all my life)... which I had to sell anyway just to stay alive the last 2 years...I can't live like this anymore...this is WRONG! I have spent most of my life trying to do something that is good and real...and that has brought Many A Smile and Happy Times to people all over this country. I feel like I am being persecuted for my ignorance. I no longer OWN equipment...but have access to some so I can work...but I am afraid of what will happen if I surface.....I am not just "Good" at what I do...I have dedicated my life to making music...I am "Damn Good" ... SOME WAY or the other...I am going to finish this album and go back to work onstage where I belong. My question is... if I march into an IRS office...hand them my ID...tell them that I have been unemployed 2 years and I have nothing left...here I am......what is going to happen?...Am I going to jail like some kind of criminal? Thank You.
The IRS phoned me that agents would come to my apartment and seize whatever property they thought was equal to $4,000 ...and if the property they seized all belonged to my great aunts, both over 90, then they could write the IRS and make a claim for it later. I was told that there was no "hardship case scenario" for someone out of work and in a Voc. Rehab. program. I was told for over a year that there were no reductions of fine or interest possible in any way for me. I asked about an "offer in compromise", I was told someone who owes $50,000 can do an "OIC" for $40,000, but that $500 will not be reduced to $400, even though the income of the two taxpayers is scaled to reflect their debt and income. I was then sent two other U.S. citizens personal ss#'s, home ph., home address, work ph., work address, computer printouts of their case, and handwrtten notes about them. All of this on "other" people and nothing about me and my case. I call the taxpayer advocate hotline, first they hang up on me, then they refuse to transfer me to supervisor, then they call me a "smartass", they say no one is available but in the background I can hear them asking for donuts and the sports page. This is simply not right.
When I married my husband, I knew he had a tax debt. $30,000 to be exact. We have been trying to pay it down but the interest and penalties are 20% (per their paperwork). We are hard-working people with normal lives, but we know that can change in a heartbeat....when THEY decide our monthly payment is not enough. They are the rudest people I have ever dealt with. NO MERCY!
The "Reader's Digest" version: I discovered I owed the IRS back-taxes for years '96 and '97. I disputed the actual amounts...to NO avail. I have requested "payment plans" to NO avail. The IRS has added "interest & penalties" totaling over 3-times what I owed to begin with !! They are now beginning collection proceedings and tax liens against my home, bank accounts, and property.......even after I PROVED that I am in NO financial position to pay the entire amount all at once and especially after they added their " cut". I should mention here: I am dying from terminal bone cancer and they take absolutely NO consideration of my medical and financial status: They want EVERYTHING I have left.........which ain't much !!!
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