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> You apparently paid almost three years late Well that's the thing, the IRS can wait 3 years (or 6 if the error was bad enough), then look at your taxes, and

> You apparently paid almost three years late Well that's the thing, the IRS can wait 3 years (or 6 if the error was bad enough), then look at your taxes, and pound you with 4%/year, instead of setting up a job to look at everything right away.

ajross 14y ago
Is that what happened in this case? Again, this is turning into an anti-government diatribe. The original assertion was that the IRS would apply heavy penalties for getting math wrong on the return. No, that's incorrect. Then it was that they'll assess a 12% penalty. No, that's wrong too, it's just a 4% APR. Now your claim is that they're... what, lying in wait? Deliberately maximizing penalties? That's not my experience (our mistake was caught after about 5 months I think). You have a counterexample? (Edit: and reading the replies, the discussion has now slipped yet further afield from the original assertion, and in two directions: on one hand, it's now outrageous -- yet somehow still an argument against the reforms in the linked article -- that some people merely have "bad experiences" with the IRS. On the other the IRS are apparently now highway bandits literally robbing people with threat of force. I give up.)
- flagnog 14y ago
  how do you like working for the IRS? Seriously - you're arguing FOR the group that takes money from people at gun point?
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  - scott_s 14y ago
    Yes. That's how we pay for the public goods that our society relies on.
- talmand 14y ago
  Since you had a good experience then we are to suppose that everyone has a good experience? I believe there are a good number of stories to show that people have had rather bad experiences with the IRS. Just like you, I'm sure there are stories of people having a good experience with the IRS. You used yourself as an example, he used himself as an example, so I fail to see how he is required to provide another counterexample to you at this point.
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ajross 14y ago

Is that what happened in this case? Again, this is turning into an anti-government diatribe. The original assertion was that the IRS would apply heavy penalties for getting math wrong on the return. No, that's incorrect. Then it was that they'll assess a 12% penalty. No, that's wrong too, it's just a 4% APR. Now your claim is that they're... what, lying in wait? Deliberately maximizing penalties? That's not my experience (our mistake was caught after about 5 months I think). You have a counterexample? (Edit: and reading the replies, the discussion has now slipped yet further afield from the original assertion, and in two directions: on one hand, it's now outrageous -- yet somehow still an argument against the reforms in the linked article -- that some people merely have "bad experiences" with the IRS. On the other the IRS are apparently now highway bandits literally robbing people with threat of force. I give up.)

flagnog 14y ago
how do you like working for the IRS? Seriously - you're arguing FOR the group that takes money from people at gun point?
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- scott_s 14y ago
  Yes. That's how we pay for the public goods that our society relies on.
talmand 14y ago
Since you had a good experience then we are to suppose that everyone has a good experience? I believe there are a good number of stories to show that people have had rather bad experiences with the IRS. Just like you, I'm sure there are stories of people having a good experience with the IRS. You used yourself as an example, he used himself as an example, so I fail to see how he is required to provide another counterexample to you at this point.

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