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Relevance: 58% Posted on: June 9, 2023
The IRS wants to do your tax returns. Should we let it? On this question, the agency has stacked the deck in its favor by commissioning an “independent” review by a left-wing think tank, New America, already on record in support of giving IRS officials authority to do this. Basically,…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: June 25, 2014
The IRS has a “Love Story” relationship with citizens. Being the IRS means never having to say you’re sorry. Actually, in real life, as opposed to cinematic catch phrases, people who care about each other do often feel a need to genuinely apologize about actual wrongs. But the IRS doesn’t…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: March 24, 2010
On the one hand, we’ve got trillion-dollar federal deficits and no sign of any austerity measure on the congressional horizon. On the other hand, we’ve got dark-suited IRS agents bullying small businessmen for allegedly being four cents behind in taxes. The letter that the two IRS suits hand-delivered to the…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 1, 2014
A year after the IRS seized their bank account, Terry Dehko and his daughter have gotten their money back, thanks to a lawsuit they undertook with the help of the valiant Institute for Justice. The IRS had looked at how the Dehkoses deposited revenues from their Fraser, Michigan store and…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 24, 2018
Blogger Paul Caron, dean of Pepperdine Law School, still counts the days since we learned that the IRS was blocking applications for nonprofit status from right-leaning groups at the behest of former IRS honcho Lois Lerner. Now years later, the agency can still arbitrarily victimize any one of us. Nor…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 28, 2013
The aptly named decision Loving v. IRS—it’s so true, you know—provides a modest victory in the war of tax-takers versus everybody else. The ruling, brought to our attention by the Institute for Justice, a party to the lawsuit, concerns IRS regulation of tax preparers. The IRS wants to force non-attorney,…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: March 6, 2014
I like the Fifth Amendment. I took it myself in 2007 when Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was witch-hunting with his grand jury. My attorney advised that I had more to fear from innocently misstating something and being vindictively charged with perjury than from the ridiculous indictments the AG would…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: March 22, 2012
The taxman puts his hands in our pockets. But it’s one thing to reach into our bank accounts and take our money, it is quite another when governments engage in different kind of overreach, where they go beyond the rule of law and just start pushing people around. Take the…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: June 15, 2014
It just so happens that the email you requested is no longer available. Bad hard drive. Oh, amend that. Two whole years of emails are missing. Sorry to inconvenience you. Check Townhall this weekend for more on the IRS's hyper-convenient email scandal. Then click back here for more reading. Wall…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: February 6, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the GAO finds $120 million a year spent paying…