Darrell Issa Retiring from Seat He Barely Won Last Time
The congressman leaves with a mixed record.
The congressman leaves with a mixed record.
"They did it for money, and they destroyed a good and honest man."
Proposed legislation would be a boon to users dealing with very complex regulations.
Former owners are suing for $2 million, accusing agency of violating the rules.
The IRS used obscure money laundering rules to seize money from business owners. A watchdog report finds $17 million of that money was legally obtained.
Cryptocurrency startup Coinbase has been scrupulously compliant with government demands, until the IRS asked for millions of innocent customers' records.
Taxpayers paid for "excessive and inappropriate" lodging and travel costs, including for one employee who managed to travel 381 days of the year.
IRS is acting in bad faith and overreaching, argues motion to quash its subpoena seeking a wide range of information about the bitcoin exchange's customers.
Attempts to make sure the feds can successfully tax pseudonymous bitcoin transactions getting serious.
The DOJ starts to retroactively apply new guidelines for structuring-related forfeitures.
A little-known rule lets feds steal money from people who haven't been convicted-or even accused-of a crime.
Unless you rip up that passport, Uncle Sam will never leave you alone. Neither will Rush.
Five federal agencies and several California police departments worked for over a year to take down a site where sex workers advertised.
There's simply a huge cost when officials and politicians lie all the time.
Instapundit on the long-term, corrosive effects of a "weaponized" IRS.
A convenience store owner accused of "structuring" will get some compensation for his forfeiture ordeal.
The tax agency acted incompetently, but not illegally.
If You Like It (and Your Benefits) Then You Better Put a Ring on It.
Tax agency overuse of sensitive personal info makes more opportunities for identity thieves.
But cryptographic tech, like that the government wants to weaken, helps mitigate the risk to users.
Do you really think this is the worst of it?
The feds drop a forfeiture case that violated their own policies.
The deposits were too small, so the government cleaned out his bank account.
They won't do it again. Next time, they'll try something different.
A little insight into the people handling your your 1040 form
It's not just fatcats feeling the pain of FATCA
It's so hard to be a tax collector. They should quit.
There are rules, you know. And they'll tell you what they are for 23 bucks.
The Internal Revenue Code's headache-inducing complexity is a scandal.
Filing your return is like playing the identity theft lottery!
They were "missing" much like a box shoved in a closet is "missing."
People who have rarely had to deal with the calculations required by tax forms may find this a bit...challenging.
The agency's new, more enlightened "structuring" policy seems to have a big loophole.
This shouldn't be a problem as you submit your sensitive personal information to the IRS, and total up the government's take. Right?
Its procedures to combat identity theft sometimes "increase the risk for an unauthorized disclosure of tax return information."
Civil forfeiture and money laundering laws let the IRS seize the accounts of legitimate businesses.
The IRS seized $242 million between 2005 and 2012 based on allegations of "structuring."
The IRS is never more dangerous than when it's answering the phone.
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