87K New IRS Agents Makes Fetterman Happy Because It Makes All Dems Happy

87K New IRS Agents Makes Fetterman Happy Because It Makes All Dems Happy –The $739 billion Schumer-Manchin Inflation Reduction LOL Act includes giving $80 billion to the IRS to hire 87,000. Whatever will those auditors do? Go after rich 1-percenters with high-powered lawyers and lobbyists and connections? Or scrutinize the the Turbo Tax returns of average people knowing full-well they don’t have the resources to fight a government demand to fork over another grand?

If you think the former you believe in fairies and unicorns and you are going to vote D regardless of logic.

If the latter, the question alone should make you vote R.

Assuming Oz actually starts campaigning.

When are the Pennsylvania Republicans going to start making an issue of this?

87K New IRS Agents Makes Fetterman Happy Because It Makes All Dems Happy
He’s coming for your money
87K New IRS Agents Makes Fetterman Happy Because It Makes All Dems Happy

IRS Calls Entertain Senior Citizen

IRS Calls Entertain Senior Citizen — A certain senior citizen we know has been getting calls from a cell phone claiming to be from the IRS and saying the department was suing him.

These scammers have conned decent unsuspecting people of a lot of money and should be rotting in jail.

In the meantime, however, they have been providing a source of mirth and entertainment for our retiree. IRS Calls Entertain Senior Citizen

In the initial call, he asked the scammer – who had a strong Indian accent — if he wanted to buy a duck. This confused him. When the scammer tried to get back on track our retiree asked again. Eventually, the scammer got frustrated and hung up.

But the sport was not over. The scammer had given a number to contact to resolve the lawsuit.

So, throughout the morning our retiree has been calling that number. He identifies himself as Joe Penner and asks the scammer if he wants to “buy a duck”.

Apparently, that was an in-phrase when our senior citizen was young.

The last time he tried he was put directly to voice mail.

He had fun while it lasted, though.

The Treasury Department has a web page for taking complaints for this scam. Yes, our senior citizen has filed one.

IRS Calls Entertain Senior Citizen

IRS Speech Standard Needs Reform

By Father Frank Pavone

Tax law says that Churches may not intervene in political campaigns. But the definition and boundaries of such intervention are vague and confusing. In its attempt at guidance, the IRS says “all the facts and circumstances” have to be examined. From one point of view, this standard itself is not a standard at all, but a mere statement of the obvious. After all, if a person, in making any kind of judgment, does not consider “facts and circumstances,” what, after all, does he or she consider — crystal balls, astrological signs, dreams and hallucinations?

From another point of view, how can one possibly consider all facts and circumstances of any action or decision? In real day to day life, we consider those facts and circumstances of which we are aware in the amount of time we have to make the decision, and which seem important enough to influence the decision. It’s a normal fact of life that, looking back on decisions we have made, we come to see facts and circumstances we did not have the time or ability to weigh at the time of the decision. Obviously, a consideration of “all the surrounding facts and circumstances” — if it can ever happen at all — can only happen after the action has been taken, and perhaps a long time after, or indeed never.

The Congressional Research Service has reported, “In many situations, the activity is permissible unless it is structured or conducted in a way that shows bias towards or against a candidate. Some biases can be subtle and whether an activity is campaign intervention will depend on the facts and circumstances of each case.” (Lunder & Whitkaker at 3.)

A question obviously arises here. Unless we are to say that Churches have no freedom to teach on issues that also happen to correspond to political debates, how are they protected from the accusation of being “partisan” simply because the position of the organization, or the teaching of the Church or the Gospel, corresponds to the position that one particular political party or candidate has, and is diametrically opposed to that of their opposing party or candidate?

The Church opposes abortion and stands up for the rights of the unborn. The Republican Party platform takes a similar position. The Democratic Party platform, on the other hand, supports abortion as a right. So now, is the Church’s pro-life position partisan, and therefore illegal to assert?

That would be both absurd and intolerable.

Erik Stanley states, “The predictable outcome of this state of affairs has been massive self-censorship among churches and pastors.” Even the Supreme Court, on more than one occasion, has noted with concern what happens when people aren’t given a clear, bright line regarding what speech and activity is forbidden and what is not. “Uncertain meanings inevitably lead citizens to ‘steer far wider of the unlawful zone . . . than if the boundaries of the forbidden areas were clearly marked.’”(Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 U.S. 104, 109 (1972) (quoting Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360, 372 (1964)).

We at Priests for Life believe there is a solution to all this. We believe it’s time to stop censoring ourselves by the risk-averse mentality, often fostered by legal advisors, that wants to not only avoid breaking the law, but also avoid both the accusation and the appearance of breaking the law. This lack of willingness to fight leads to sterility and paralysis, keeping the Church’s mission from being fulfilled.

Instead, we should rely on legal counsel who are willing to interpret the IRS guidelines in a way that does not stifle our mission, and have the readiness to defend that interpretation. We need to conduct non-partisan activities in a way that common sense judges as non-partisan: no candidate or party is endorsed, and the activity is open to all. And we should push for legislation that provides a “bright line” test for Churches and tax exempt organizations so that they know ahead of time, by a clear, reasonable, and easily discernible standard, what does and does not constitute prohibited political intervention. A perfect example of this is provided in the Buckley vs. Valeo Supreme Court decision which, in another context, indicated the bright line to be defined by whether or not one uses “explicit words of advocacy of election or defeat of a candidate.” The Court gave examples of such words and phrases: ‘vote for,’ ‘elect,’ ‘support,’ ‘cast your ballot for,’ ‘Smith for congress,’ ‘vote against,’ ‘defeat,’ ‘reject.’

It is time to apply a clear standard like this in order to interpret the political intervention prohibition on Churches.

Father Pavone  is national director of Priests for Life

 

IRS Speech Standard Needs Reform

IRS Speech Standard Needs Reform

FATCA Continues Obama Quest To End US Influcence

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FACTCA took effect July 1 after a six-month delay and is the latest ploy by Barack Obama to destroy American influence.

The law was passed in 2010 when the Democrats ran everything and requires every bank in the world to enter into a sharing agreement with the IRS.

The convoluted paper-work laden law requires banks that are in compliance to withhold the 30 percent tax on any funds transferred with banks that are not in compliance or risk the withholding tax penalty themselves.

The idea was to stop those sheltering their money overseas.

The consequence, however, is that foreign banks are starting to refuse the business of the seven million Americans who live abroad and that these Americans are giving up their citizenship in unprecedented numbers.

We fear it is but a matter of time that the dollar loses its status as the world’s back up currency.

Sarah Palin is absolutely right. Obama should be impeached as soon as possible.

FATCA Continues Obama Quest To End US Influcence

 

FATCA Continues Obama Quest To End US Influcence

IRS: A Series of Unfortunate Events?

By Kevin D. Williamson

You may recall that when the IRS political-persecution scandal first started to become public, the agency’s story was that the trouble was the result of the misguided, overly enthusiastic actions of a few obscure yokels in Cincinnati. That turned out to be a lie, as we all know. But the IRS made a similar case successfully in the matter of its criminal disclosure of the confidential tax records of the National Organization for Marriage, whose donor lists were leaked to left-wing activists in order to use them against the Romney campaign. The IRS admitted that an employee leaked the information, but said it was an accident, that it involved only a single employee making a single error, etc., and the court agreed that NOM could not show that the leak was the result of malice or gross negligence.

Truly, the IRS must be the unluckiest agency in the history of the federal government. Oops! It’s leaking confidential taxpayer information to political activists. D’oh! It’s improperly and illegally targeting conservative organizations for harassment and investigation and misleading Congress, investigators, and the public about the scope and scale of that wrongdoing. Dang! It cannot produce the emails that investigators have demanded as part of the inquiry into its actions. Rats! Its employees are openly campaigning for Barack Obama’s reelection while on the IRS’s clock, using IRS resources, and holding taxpayers hostage. And, who could have seen it coming? The IRS violated the Federal Records Act by refusing to archive relevant documents. With a string of bad luck like that, sure, accidentally releasing NOM’s confidential taxpayer information to left-wing activists seems right at home.

That these events represent an unconnected string of unfortunate events — all of which just so happen to benefit the Left and its IRS allies while hurting conservatives and IRS critics — beggars belief. Add to that mix the willful dishonesty, the staged press rollout, complete with planted questions, intended to preempt questions about the internal investigation and its results, the naked lie that the wrongdoing was limited to a few nobodies in Cincinnati — the only way to believe that story is to desire very deeply to believe it.

The alternative and much more likely — undeniable, to my mind — explanation is that the Internal Revenue Service is engaged in an active and ongoing criminal conspiracy to misappropriate federal resources for political purposes, to use its investigatory powers, including the threat of criminal prosecution, for purposes of political repression, and to actively mislead Congress and the public about the issue; that the Justice Department is turning a blind eye to these very serious crimes for political purposes and is therefore complicit in the cover-up; that these crimes were encouraged if not outright suborned by Senate Democrats; and that the White House is at the very least passively complicit, refusing to lift so much as a presidential pinkie as the IRS runs amok.

And, apparently, there’s nobody in Washington with the power and the inclination to do anything about it.

Mr. Williamson, who now writes for National Review, was once the editor of the Ardmore Pa. -based Main Line Times

IRS: A Series of Unfortunate Events?

Obama IRS Joke And The Banality Of Evil

Obama IRS Joke And The Banality Of Evil

Obama IRS Joke And The Banality Of Evil

Way back in May 2009, Barack Obama gave the commencement speech at Arizona State University in which he said “I really thought this was much ado about nothing, but I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.”

Ho ho ho.

In light of how the administration used the IRS, it showed a pretty sick sense of humor. Further it revealed a rather banal man indifferent to the responsibility of wielding power, and, even more troubling, indifferent to the rights of others.

He’s joked about drone strikes too.

Thank God for our Constitution. All Obama voters should hang their heads in shame.

 

 

IRS Chief Partisan Democrat

IRS Chief Partisan Democrat

John Koskinen, IRS Chief Partisan Democrat

John Koskinen, the man who heads the IRS which is now looking more and more like an apparatus of a police state whose administrators feel beholden to no law, is a partisan Democrat.

That’s right, he has given over $100,000 to Democrats over 40 years including $7,300 to the Obama campaign.

Koskinen was named IRS commissioner in August of 2013 in the wake of scandals showing the agency unfairly targeted groups opposed to the Obama administration.

Was he going to institute needed reforms and see that justice was done to allow the American people to once again trust their government?

Or was he just a hired fixer picked to sweep things under rugs?

Well, he is now telling Congress that documents subpoenaed twice have been lost in ways not possible, and that no effort was made to find them anyway.

The documents — the email archives of former IRS tax-exempt division chief Lois Lerner — would have revealed whether the discriminatory treatment of opponents of the president was done as a result of policy.

Ms. Lerner has invoked the 5th Amendment regarding testifying before Congress.

Hat tip Bryan Preston at PJMedia.com

IRS Chief Partisan Democrat

 

 

IRS Record Keeping Hypocrisy

The Internal Revenue Service has lost critical emails of seven officials accused of targeting conservative groups.

Byran Preston of PJMedia.com notes that the IRS uses server based Microsoft Exchange as its email system hence its excuses of hard drive crashes and recycled backup tapes are not very plausible.

If emails are served on outside servers problems they would obviously not be susceptible to issues involving local computers.

Preston notes that the IRS website provides taxpayers with this strong record-keeping advice:

Note: Keep copies of your filed tax returns. They help in preparing future tax returns and making computations if you file an amended return.

  1. You owe additional tax and situations (2), (3), and (4), below, do not apply to you; keep records for 3 years.
  2. You do not report income that you should report, and it is more than 25% of the gross income shown on your return; keep records for 6 years.
  3. You file a fraudulent return; keep records indefinitely.
  4. You do not file a return; keep records indefinitely.
  5. You file a claim for credit or refund* after you file your return; keep records for 3 years from the date you filed your original return or 2 years from the date you paid the tax, whichever is later.
  6. You file a claim for a loss from worthless securities or bad debt deduction; keep records for 7 years.
  7. Keep all employment tax records for at least 4 years after the date that the tax becomes due or is paid, whichever is later.

Hypocrisy involving government always comes back to bite those responsible in the tail. It may take awhile but it will happen here as well.

IRS Record Keeping Hypocrisy

IRS Record Keeping Hypocrisy

IRS Audits Palin Dad

Sarah Palin’s brother on Jan. 11 posted on Facebook that their father became the subject of government harassment shortly after Palin was tapped as a vice president candidate in 2008.

Chuck Heath Jr. wrote:

 

Coincidence? You decide.

My father, who worked multiple jobs and faithfully and honestly paid his taxes for fifty years, had never heard a word from the IRS. In 2008, his daughter was tapped to run for vice president of the United States.
Since that time, he has been, in his words “horribly harassed” six times by the agency. They’ve tried to dig up something on him but he’s always operated above board.

Government and politics are ugly. Kudos to the few that are trying to clean it up.

 

Chuck Heath Sr. is a retired school teacher who has a reputation of being Mr. Chips. So where is the outrage in his defense from the old media watchdogs? Stupid question. There are no old media watchdogs. All that’s left in the old media are gutless corporate hacks and happy purveyors of propaganda looking to go along to get along.

Hat tip Bryan Preston at PJMedia.com

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Paul Caron Keeps IRS Scandal Alive

Obama IRS Scandal kept alive by Pepperdine prof Paul Caron

 

Kudos to Paul Caron of Pepperdine University School of Law whose TaxProf Blog is not letting Barack Obama’s use of the IRS against political opponents be forgotten.

Caron is a member of the Law Professors Blogs Network.

His site can be found at http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/09/the-irs.html

 

Paul Caron Keeps IRS Scandal Alive

Paul Caron Keeps IRS Scandal Alive

 

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