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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I did have my own IRS nightmare after the identity hacking. it's not completely, but mostly over now, they still seem to think we are hiding helicopters and luxury yachts. seriously  , actually it's mostly one semi rogue agent who broke a lot of their own laws. at it's worst, we, as a family of three, six horses, four dogs and I think five cats at the time, were receiving a grand total of $35 a month for about four months (and yeah they had cleared everything out as well) fortunately I had three freezers full of beef, pork and farm fresh vegies as well as a good start on that seasons garden. I had been doing a lot of contracting prior to that so my income was always erratic and for whatever reason I had gotten in the habit of taking half my pay check in cash and stashing it in a tampax box .
it really is criminal what those people can get away with. numerous quite innocent people have suicided over the treatment. |
Oh, yes, and now, joy of joys, they'll be in charge of healthcare. I can't wait for that. Can't imagine what genius thought THAT was a good idea. The single most abusive employees in government?
I had a run-in with them way back in...'86, I think it was. I owed them, it seems, $300-some-odd in taxes, due to a new calculation on the value of a non-cash benefit I was receiving (I honestly forget what it was--a phone, or health bennies or something). Now, in the then-current year, they owed ME over $1100 in my refund, in a return that they'd already processed but hadn't yet refunded. The agent in charge kept
threatening me, calling me near-daily, about how they were going to come to my house, seize everything that they found, etc. This is for THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, mind you, not Three Hundred THOUSAND. And it wasn't like I'd cheated on my taxes or hidden money. It was an honest mistake.
I told him, "well, dude, I hope you wear a size 8 suit, and look good in skirts, because that's about all I have." I was renting an apartment, and in a move, almost everything I owned had been lost, so I had the clothes on my back and whatever I'd bought new, nothing else. No pets, even, just me and some suits. (never did get that stuff back).
They used to have a position--the "Ombudsman," (abolished now, of course, because it worked)--and I had to go to him to get it solved, saying for the nth time, "LOOK, just take the money from the refund, for *&^%$#@! sake!" It was
RIDICULOUS.
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