IRS Steals Widow's Money Because Her Deposits Were Too Small
The agency's new, more enlightened "structuring" policy seems to have a big loophole.
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.
Lois Lerner isn't the problem. The power of the IRS-and so many other government agencies-is a bludgeon that will inevitably be used by almost anybody who gets their hands on it.
Wants an affidavit explaining what happened to IRS e-mails amid investigation of wrong-doing
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