DOJ Closes Investigation Into IRS Political Targeting, Won't Charge Lois Lerner
The tax agency acted incompetently, but not illegally.
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.
The IRS's latest abuse is seizing the bank accounts of people the agency deems suspicious.
Everything is fixed, there's nothing to see here...
Forget tax rebels. Now it's the tax collectors getting creative with the rules.
A look at who the IRS has been targeting
Nice work, oh tax collectors.
The tax agency wants evidence of who is entitled to what.