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Unusual for the New York Times to criticize the IRS so pointedly. Most private citizens cannot publicly attack the IRS for justified fear of raising their profi
by temphn 14y ago
Unusual for the New York Times to criticize the IRS so pointedly. Most private citizens cannot publicly attack the IRS for justified fear of raising their profile and triggering an audit (see: Plumber, Joe The or Snipes, Wesley).
But it sure would be useful to have a blog dedicated to exposing the abuses of the IRS and other agencies. Given how big the agency is, and how infrequent these articles are, we can be sure this is just the tip of an iceberg of bureaucratic malfeasance.
EDIT: this is apparently the eyesore that the IRS values at $65 million:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Robert_Rauschenberg%27s_%27Canyon%27%2C_1959.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Robert_Rausche...
- raverbashing 14y agothe IRS is the modern version of the Corsair And of course, it's always a balance, which ends up with Saverin giving up citizenship because of their fury and at the same time big companies Doubling/Tripling Irish everything and being in the clear with them. (not saying what they did was wrong though)
- rat87 14y agoSo the IRS are pirates now? Are copyright Pirates still pirates? What about(Somali) pirates pirates?
- rat87 14y agoI thought Joe the Plumber owed lots of back taxes before he started squawking.
- yummyfajitas 14y agoAccording to Wikipedia, he owed the taxes (to Ohio, not the IRS) but was likely unaware of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber#Tax_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber#Tax_controvers... It was Ohio Job&Family Services and the Highway Patrol which started trying to dig up dirt on him in retaliation for his criticism of Obama, not the IRS.
- bluekeybox 14y agoDon't give them too much credit though; they had to wait five months until the tax season is over, and people forget about the original story that appeared in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/02/22/the-irs-invents-a-chinese-billionaire/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/02/22/the-irs-i...
- rprasad 14y agoThe IRS computer system was built in the 1970s. It does not have the capabilities you ascribe to it. Consequently, the IRS still uses the following system to determine who to audit: (1) errors in their returns, (2) types of income, and (3)randomly based on type of return.
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