IRS Will End ‘Most Unannounced Visits to Taxpayers’ by Agency Officers
“Effective immediately, unannounced visits will end except in a few unique circumstances and will be replaced with mailed letters to schedule meetings.”
I have a better idea. How about we repeal the 16th Amendment and disband the IRS?
I can dream.
The IRS announced this morning it will end most unannounced visits by agency officers.
As part of a larger transformation effort, the Internal Revenue Service today announced a major policy change that will end most unannounced visits to taxpayers by agency revenue officers to reduce public confusion and enhance overall safety measures for taxpayers and employees.
The change reverses a decades-long practice by IRS revenue officers, the unarmed agency employees whose duties include visiting households and businesses to help taxpayers resolve their account balances by collecting unpaid taxes and unfiled tax returns. Effective immediately, unannounced visits will end except in a few unique circumstances and will be replaced with mailed letters to schedule meetings.
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel announced the change as part of a larger effort to transform IRS operations following passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year and the creation of the new IRS Strategic Operating Plan in April.
“We are taking a fresh look at how the IRS operates to better serve taxpayers and the nation, and making this change is a common-sense step,” Werfel said. “Changing this long-standing procedure will increase confidence in our tax administration work and improve overall safety for taxpayers and IRS employees.”
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had confidence in the IRS. Raise your hand if this will give you confidence in the IRS.
Yeah, I didn’t think so. I bet a lot of you are like me and just want the IRS to go away.
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) is happy about this change because it will protect IRS agents.
Nice to know that it is all about the IRS agents and not the harassment of taxpayers:
“NTEU welcomes the IRS decision to halt unannounced visits by IRS Field Collection employees,” said Tony Reardon, National President of the National Treasury Employees Union “The safety of IRS employees is of paramount importance and this decision will help protect those whose jobs have only grown more dangerous in recent years because of false, inflammatory rhetoric about the agency and its workforce. We applaud Commissioner Werfel’s quick action after hearing the safety concerns raised by NTEU leaders and IRS Field Collection employees who faced dangerous situations that put their safety at risk. We look forward to working with the IRS on this and other actions to protect the safety of all IRS employees.”
Werfel at least acknowledged the taxpayer because some scam artists have posed as IRS agents, leaving the resident and law enforcement confused.
So who will get the visits? The IRS claims a few:
The IRS noted there will still be extremely limited situations where unannounced visits will occur. These rare instances include service of summonses and subpoenas; and also sensitive enforcement activities involving seizure of assets, especially those at risk of being placed beyond the reach of the government. To put this in perspective, these types of situations typically number less than a few hundred each year – a small fraction compared to the tens of thousands of unannounced visits that typically occurred annually under the old policy.
The rest will receive appointment letters in the mail. Yippee.
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Pretty crazy to think that the IRS would just show up randomly at someone’s home, when they’re likely at work anyway, or worse — in the evening — completely unannounced to “””help””” people with their taxes. Seriously, what genius thought that was ever a good idea?
If by ‘most’ you mean ‘zero’ then the statement is accurate
“The change reverses a decades-long practice by IRS revenue officers, the unarmed agency employees whose duties include visiting households and businesses to help taxpayers resolve their account balances by collecting unpaid taxes and unfiled tax returns. “
As Ronald Reagan said: “The most terrifying words are I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
So, all that travel time and interview time that was previously wasted means fewer IRS employees, right? Right?
1913 stands out as perhaps the worst year in American political history.
~ February, the 16th Am became a part of the Constitution, No longer would the states act as interference; fedgov could now go directly after individual citizens. Under the Framers’ plan the cost of fedgov was paid for by the states, net of any tariff income, apportioned according to census enumeration. It was left to each state how its apportioned amount (plus the taxes needed for each state to run its own affairs) would be raised, meaning each state had a stake in seeing that fedgov was wise with tax dollars, that is, were kept low, because each state was in turn accountable to its own taxpayers. With the 16th Am. the states were let off the hook. Fedgov could now go after individual citizens. Shortly after the 16th Am. a raft of states enacted their own income tax schemes.
~ March, Woodrow Wilson, admitted internationalist, took office as president. As is the wont of Democrats regardless of when in time, Wilson deceived, the public with the lie that American boys would not be fighting in Europe. Once in office Wilson did everything he could to entangle the USA with European affairs, utterly disregarding Washington’s wisdom (Farewell Address). [FDR another deceitful Democrat followed this same strategy 27 years later.] Wilson the admitted internationalist had his 14 Points and his vision of a League of Nations (world government) well established even before 1913. His disregard for the Constitution was disgusting. The Senate wisely rejected the Treaty of Versailles (1919) (which established the League of Nations). The League was established without the USA (headquartered in Geneva), but a league without the USA was a nothingburger. Meaning, another world war would be required. The UN was spawned by WWII. The Rockefellows gave the $8,500,000 needed to buy the land in NYC. The point was to put the beast firmly inside the USA
~ May, the 17th Am became a part of the Constitution. The states began the process of being mere administrative bodies of fedgov. The people and the states were the creators of fedgov, each with its own separate interests requiring separate representation in Congress. State legislatures chose their own representatives who would serve as federal senators. This amendment stripped those legislatures of that freedom
~ December, the Federal Reserve Act became law. And so began the utter devaluation of our currency and our complete manipulation of our lives. Best book on this fraud is Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994). The Federal Reserve Bank is not federal, has no reserves, and isn’t a bank. It’s a private cartel owned by the nation’s largest banks for their benefit (a cartel protecting its interests), protected by law. What’s not to like about that (if you’re one of the owners).
According to Kweisi Mfume (D-Md), we need the IRS to exert power otherwise our democracy will get out of balance:
“The DOJ, FBI, and IRS keep this democracy in check and provide the checks and balances.”
otherwise the US could tip over like Guam did
It’s amazing how utterly ignorant our elected officials are. The universal corruption in fedgov keeps intelligent, honest people from running for office.
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So now what will the IRS do with all those brand-new firearms and ammo that they bought?
… and the 87,000 new tooled up agents, willing to work overtime and use force. (Per their recruiting advert. They explicitly recruited for people expected to be on call, work overtime, and use arms in the course of the job. Look it up; the ads were noted and reported all over.)
The fact that they mention “unarmed” is cause for concern. It made me think that moving forward all of the unannounced visits will be made by armed agents.
How about we repeal the 16th Amendment and disband the IRS?
I wanna have Mary’s baby!
I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then the assumption will be that, just like anything else the government says, it’s a lie.
Well, a mixed truth certainly. Unannounced visits by the IRS are unproductive uses of valuable personnel time. They have to get organized, travel to the site, and most likely a vast percentage of the papers and records they want to examine are unavailable since Bob is on vacation and Tammy is on maturnity leave etc… That means a *second* visit, because they can’t just drag a business into court for failing to provide records on zero notice. (Well, they can, but judges look skeptically at that kind of brute force) This turns the expensive first visit into a certified letter, sign here please, have all these records available when we schedule our visit with your staff no later than two weeks from this day and if you don’t…. Well, even the Joker doesn’t mess with the IRS.
The only legit drop-in-without-warning visits from the Feds that I can think of offhand are bank audits, pharmacy audits, and federal firearms sales.
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87,000 agents will be going to your door. Count on it