WH’s Bernstein: 87,000 New IRS Agents Won’t Target Households Earning Under $400k

[mystery-ak]

 

WH’s Bernstein: 87,000 New IRS Agents Won’t Target Households Earning Under $400k


https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/08/10/whs-bernstein-87000-new-irs-agents-wont-target-households-earning-under-400k/

[Kamaji]

WH’s Bernstein: 87,000 New IRS Agents Won’t Target Households Earning Under $400k

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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/08/10/whs-bernstein-87000-new-irs-agents-wont-target-households-earning-under-400k/

That’s a pointlessly stupid statement.  The IRS will have substantial additional new agents, and for every new agent who is assigned to audit a wealthy person, that leaves an experienced agent who can be reassigned, including to auditing non-wealthy people. 

What a disingenuous statement.

[Hoodat]

WH’s Bernstein: 87,000 New IRS Agents Won’t Target Households Earning Under $400k

Doing the math, that means that there will be one new agent for every 32 tax returns over $400k.  Imagine that.  One agent.  240 work days.  32 taxpayers.  That's 7.5 days per tax year of one tax agent dedicated to combing over your tax returns every year without cause (other than you worked your ass off to make $400k).  And you know there will be some sort of quota in effect.

[libertybele]

....and we should believe this b.s. why?

[berdie]

....and we should believe this b.s. why?

My thought as well. It's not like these people have sterling reputations for honesty.

[mountaineer]

Ford Fischer
@FordFischer
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4h
The IRS is hiring new special agents!
Requirements include working min “50 hours per week, which may include irregular hours, and be on-call 24/7, including holidays and weekends” and “Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”
https://t.co/uvwbrAkIit

One of my uncles worked for the IRS, back when the job requirement included accounting experience. 

[mountaineer]

Oh, my bad. Accounting skills are helpful.

Ford Fischer
@FordFischer
4h
They “will combine accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes.”

“all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation.”

[Kamaji]

One of my uncles worked for the IRS, back when the job requirement included accounting experience. 

Did he work as a "special agent"?

[mountaineer]

Did he work as a "special agent"?

No, just a numbers cruncher in Parkersburg, WV, as far as I know.

Incidentally, the IRS has taken down that job posting, I hear.

[Hoodat]

No, just a numbers cruncher in Parkersburg, WV, as far as I know.

Any DuPont experience?

[mountaineer]

Any DuPont experience?

I don't believe so.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Ashley St. Clair
@stclairashley
·1h

How’d we go from throwing tea in the harbor to having armed IRS agents

[berdie]

Could be there is a correlation between the two.

[GtHawk]

Whaaat, they never heard of armed revenuers? If it were good enough for T-men to be armed it's good enough for Infernal Revenue agents to be armed, after all there has to be an answer to all those armed citizens making errors on their taxes. I guess they plan on going into miscreants homes and taking what they feel is owed to the feds at gunpoint.

[Smokin Joe]

87,000 New IRS Agents Won’t Target Households Earning Under $400k

Nah, just 86,999 of them will...

[Kamaji]

No, just a numbers cruncher in Parkersburg, WV, as far as I know.

Incidentally, the IRS has taken down that job posting, I hear.

They may very well have taken the posting down simply because of the poor timing.  But IRS special agents are very real and have been around for a long time.  That advert was not some new invention. 

[mountaineer]

I'm going to post this entire tw*tter thread.

LibertyJ
@LibertyJen
Aug 10

I’m going to tell a story for those people who think dealing with the  IRS is somehow fair or “reasonable” — buckle up.

When I was a kid, my dad owned a small cabinet shop. He decided (against better judgement of my mother) to go into partnership with another furniture maker. The business with both of them operated for about one year successfully. Dad ran the shop with about 55 employees. The other guy ran the books (you see where this is going.) Until one day, a bunch of collections notices were at the business door.

Turns out “partner” embezzling.  All the shop accounts were in dads name (for doors/hinges/machinery/etc.)  He filed jointly for bankruptcy with this “partner” 

IRS determined both sides had to pay IRS $777 per month for 7 years.  This was in the late 80’s—this amount of money was more than the mortgage on home.

Parents paid this money: $65,268 for the full seven years.  They were so terrified of IRS, they sent an extra payment, which the IRS RETURNED and said the debt was paid in full, in writing.  3 years later, the IRS sends a demand letter saying my parents owe another 4 yrs payments

The “partner” didn’t pay the last 4 years.  So now my parents owed it, with interest.  They hired a lawyer from their church, paid him $10,000 up front— lawyer didn’t show up for court. Now my parents owed an additional 5 years of payments $777/month to IRS

The IRS came to our home, towed 2 vehicles out of driveway (a paid for used pick up my dad used for work & a yellow Oldsmobile station wagon.) They searched our house & took cash out of my piggy bank. I was 11.
They took coins my mom had from her father.  Purely sentimental ones.

They were forced to pay someone ELSE’S debt because the IRS was too dumb to track him down.   I WAS FORCED, at 11, to pay someone else’s debt. I had to get a paycheck job at 13 to buy groceries for the family.  We were poor AF.

Both my parents worked hard, but they were taken advantage of by evil people—my dad absolutely owed his half of the debt—for being a fool.  But the extra 4 years plus penalty?  That was pure IRS evil.

When the IRS screws you over— there is no one to turn to. There is no higher agency. There is no oversight.
The rules are so convoluted  lawyers and CPAs struggle to decipher them.  The IRS can send you a letter IN WRITING that your debt is “paid in full” — then come after everything you own YEARS later and force you to pay penalties.

So if you think that 87,000 more IRS agents is somehow a good thing, then just wait until they are breaking into your home and stealing $18 from your 11 year old’s piggy bank and $20 in antique coins given to you by your father.
Just wait.  It’s coming.

[christian]

If only PEOPLE  WOULD JUST LAY  THEIR WEAPONS AND TURN THEM IN, we would have a much happier democrat government ramming its unConstitutional powers/manuevers down America citizens throats.  and every illegal move of democrats will have to be accepted instantly or the power of government will come down on them like a mountain falling on them.  Like a third world government or brown shirts of yester year.  Who would have thought deaf, DUMB, and blind lock-steppers could have become so successful in such a short time.  Strutting lockstepper ho's of yesterday now todays!
Congrats, hell is ready to accept you now, your qualifications are clear as day.

[Bigun]

"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man's counting house. The law will, of necessity, have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create complicated machinery. Under it, businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits..."

Richard E. Byrd, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, March 3, 1910, speaking against the ratification of the 16th Amendment