I know several people who work for the IRS as well as going through a personal/business audit.  The agents are not bad people and take a bad rap at times.  They know almost all cheat in some way and that it is accepted up to a point——there are acceptable ranges for some deductions based on income levels.  Tax preparers know these ranges and prepare returns accordingly—-it’s all part of the game.  However, what they do not accept is the hiding of income and that will raise the ire of the agency.  If you want to exaggerate your deductions go ahead if you get caught you’ll pay the additional tax, plus a small fine/interest and go on your way.  If you hide income and get caught you’ll be a tax dodger with much greater penalties.

Not to be confused with Treasurer of the United States.

“The United States of America Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters…”

“The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the United States federal government agency that collects taxes and enforces the internal revenue laws. It is an agency within the U.S. Department of the Treasury and is responsible for interpretation and application of Federal tax law.”

The IRS is working with the IMF to find tax cheaters, so some claim the IRS has been taken over by the IMF? Personally I’m not a believer in the IMF and I think the IMF does great harm, but if the IMF is able to help the IRS identify tax fraud that’s a plus in my view.

Who are these tax cheaters? Their not ordinary Americans, they’re the super rich, and corporations, that want to avoid paying their taxes.

These anti-tax followers of Ron Paul, apparently don’t see, or don’t care, that Ron Paul’s free market policies would continue the very worst practices of predatory Capitalism.

Is it April Fool’s Day?

The IRS is the collection arm of the IMF.

1. The IRS is not a U.S. Government Agency. It is an Agency of the IMF.
(Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization
Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)

2. The IMF is an Agency of the UN. (Blacks Law Dictionary 6th Ed. Pg. 816)

3. The U.S. Has not had a Treasury since 1921. (41 Stat. Ch.214 pg. 654)

4. The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF. (Presidential Documents Volume 29-No.4 pg. 113, 22 U.S.C. 285-288)

By jfr, April 15 at 11:21 am #

“I have one question.  Since the IRS is a private organization and not a Federal agency (something which this article fails to mention), then how can one claim its employees are Federal employees?”

The answer to your question follows.

“The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the United States federal government agency that collects taxes and enforces the internal revenue laws. It is an agency within the U.S. Department of the Treasury and is responsible for interpretation and application of Federal tax law.”

“The Internal Revenue Service is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The Commissioner has general superintendence of the assessment and collection of all taxes imposed by any law providing internal revenue. The Internal Revenue Service is the agency by which these functions are performed.
– 26 C.F.R. section 601.101(a).”

People claim that I.R.S. employees are Federal Employees because they are Federal employees. All these false claims about the I.R.S.‘s lack of authority bear some responsibility for a man flying an airplane into a building with the intent of killing people, and for the mother of 6 who kills herself, thereby abandoning her 6 children. The I.R.S. is not responsible for these tragedies. I’ll suggest that it is pathological anti-government fear and hatred that bears much of the responsibility for these tragedies.

All these stories concerned with fear and hatred of government, and jack booted thugs, or jack booted thug wanna’ bes, that occur on a daily basis, are symptomatic of a society in chaos. This has happened before, and it does not bode well for our future. Those who fuel the fires of hatred, distrust, and fear and intentionally or inadvertently suggest violent action is, or may be justified, because they are displeased with election results, are a threat to democracy.

The undeniable truth is that right wing policies have brought us to our current difficulties, and the right has become obstinate, irrational, disingenuous, and hysterical in response to attempts by our current government to correct those errant policies.

The chaos causing confusion comes from people incorrectly identifying the source of their problems. Although incompetence and corruption are evident in Washington D.C.; the most profound source of our current problems, and the dominant source of government corruption, comes from Wall Street. It’s now imperative that we support and elect politicians who are advocating regulation to control Wall Street abuses, and who are the least supportive of Wall Street’s self interested, and unjust, goals and objectives of corporate power. The results of right wing power have far exceeded matters of simple injustice, and have very real life and death consequences.

(That being said, jack booted thugs are jack booted thugs, and they get their kicks, by being jack booted thugs. Jack booted thugs are not new to our society, and Jack booted thugs multiply in societies that are in chaos, and in societies where tyrannical forces arise.)

From the mouth of former IRS agents, ‘there is no law in the Federal Statutes that requires the citizens of the United States to pay a tax on their income, in point of fact, the agency known as the Internal Revenue Service, forces Americans to pay a tax the is not apportioned and is therefore illegal in the U.S.’
How can you not call an agency with its own court system, where the ‘defendant’ is guilty until proven innocent,’ nothing more than ‘jackbooted’ thugs?
Mr. Robinson, I always thought of you as a man who spoke with the voice of the people, how then can you take this obscene and otherwise propagandist viewpoint? I’ll tell you how, someone in the IRS paid for this article of nonsensical and unabashed propaganda.
Much like Armstrong Williams taking money from the government to take a position on the education bill, we the people will soon learn that Eugene Robinson is taking money from the government to write propaganda pieces about the IRS.
Never again will I comment on any of these obscenities that he writes, his credibility is shot to hell and he is persona non grata in my book.
Mr. Robinson, for this piece of drivel and the ensuing aftermath I wish you nothing but the heartache that has been felt by those ensnared by the web of the IRS and their jackbooted thugs.

The truth can never be slander.

No matter how much, some want to devalue criticism of the IRS, there is nothing more telling, than the fact that there exists a federal office whose sole purpose is to protect the citizens of this country from IRS abuses.

That office is the Office of Tax payer Advocate.

I’m sure there are many hard working IRS employees and I don’t fault them. However, America is no longer a rich country and people struggle to feed themselves, with 35% of the population on food stamps, maybe it’s time to take a good hard look at why people cannot afford to pay their taxes.

Then there’s this:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9F2D62O1&show_article=1

Is there any law one could point to that says Americans are obliged to fork over a massive chunk of their earnings? Because if not then THE IRS IS A BUNCH OF JACKBOOTED THUGS!

As a nation we would do better to send the entire IRS packing and collect any needed revenue at the purchasing end. In this way, people who can scarcely afford to cover their rent and grocery bills would pay no tax, and those buying big-ass SUVs and boats will pay a big-ass tax! Most people will fall in the middle and pay a sensible amount of tax. Best of all, we’ll all get a really clear idea of how much we’re really paying in taxes when we pay all our taxes at the same juncture.

Of course, the powers that be don’t like this idea so you’ll never hear it spoken of on the nightly news. And why don’t they like it? As things are set up now, the PTB pay relatively little or no taxes whereas the little workers of the nation are the ones footing the bill for all the PTB’s desires. It’s hard for them to imagine how they will fund the endless wars they amuse themselves with if they cannot administer shake-downs to the low and middle class whenever they please.