American Thinker: An inspector general’s report shows that the Internal Revenue Service seized the bank accounts of innocent taxpayers who weren’t engaged in any criminal activity.
The IRS had the legal right “to disrupt and dismantle criminal enterprises,” by seizing funds in bank accounts. But the I.G. found more than 90% of actions taken against taxpayers who were supposedly involved in organized criminal activity were erroneous.
[…] “When property owners were interviewed after the seizure, agents did not always identify themselves properly, did not explain the purpose of the interviews, did not advise property owners of any rights they might have, and told property owners they had committed a crime at the conclusion of the interviews,”
The IRS – a legal criminal enterprise exempt from prosecution.
Lois Lerner objects to this characterization.
As Lois Lerner once said: “Since when did stealing money from taxpayers constitute a crime”?
I would like to see the whole lot standing in front of a FIRING SQUAD!
I wish a couple of Cruz Missiles would target the IRS.
our government is better at targeting it’s citizens with the irs than the terrorists with the military.
too bad we don’t sick the irs on the terrorists.
doesn’t the irs have more guns and bullets now than the military anyway ?
It’s not like this is a surprise, it’s just that the corruption runs so deep, and has been doing so for so long, and was so firmly entrenched during the last eight years, how do we stop it?
Maybe there will be a bounty on agents in the future. That would sure change their attitude.
My husband has said multiple times that once Trump took office, the stories of crime and corruption would start oozing out of Washington like a river of pus. He was so right.
The IRS did this to me several years ago when they confused my business with another. Totally different tax ID numbers, but what the heck, that didn’t stop them. Took me 48-72 hours to resolve the issue.
Idiots
Terminate with extreme prejudice.
Raze the buildings.
Grind the ruble into road construction material.
Sit back and experience freedom.
Uhm, no.
The IRS didn’t go and seize anything. Someone at an IRS computer sent an “e-mail” to a bank. You remember banks? The “too big to fail” so let’s give the executives billion dollar bonuses for failing, and shift he losses onto the account holders. The bank trusted to faithfully guard “your funds” sent the IRS a “check” without so much as a conviction. Because, you know, they asked.
It’s hard to muster much sympathy. (Ow, I tried. I can’t squeeze any out. Maybe you’ll have better luck.) If anyone, absolutely anyone, keeps money in a “regulated” institution, in the twenty-first century, they deserve to be looted. It’s a learning experience for them, and a warning to the rest.
The IRS. I was wondering what became of Organized Crime.