For those people who think the addition of 87,000 IRS agents is nothing to be alarmed about, Tweeter @LibertyJen shared a cautionary tale of just how “reasonable” the tax collection agency can be.
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 🧵
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
If you think this story has a happy ending, you must not be familiar with the federal government.
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.
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
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.
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
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
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
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Read that again. Monthly payments to the IRS that were more than their mortgage payments. They did the right thing, and somehow managed to fulfill their “obligation”. That should have been the end of it but of course it wasn’t.
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
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
An additional five years, after they were told their debt had been paid in full.
But wait, it gets worse!
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.— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
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.
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
They stole from an 11-year-old’s piggy bank to get money for a debt that she wasn’t even capable of incurring at that age. They took family mementos to pay for a debt that had nothing to do with the person who had passed them down.
They took the family’s means of transportation. We’re not sure how removing the ability to get to work facilitates the ability to pay off a trumped-up debt, but then again, we don’t use government “logic”.
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.
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
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.
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
There is no higher agency.
That’s the moral of this story. If a federal government agency wants you, they will get you. They will not stop until they find a way to make you pay. It’s how they justify their wretched existence.
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.— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) August 10, 2022
It’s coming.
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