This particular case with the IRS has a backstory. Ready?
In 2022 the IRS called this person to its office. An appointment was secured and there were two IRS agents at the ready to arrest this person if receipts to back up a claim for a refund of more than $25,000 wasn’t forthcoming. The person involved had the 2022 file and handed it to the first agent sitting nearest the computer. The agent said, “This is your return for this year?”
Taxpayer said, “Yes.” This is a true story.
The second agent sitting behind the first one stated, “This is not the tax return for 2022 we are looking at on the screen.”
Taxpayer states, “Well, this is my return and where is my refund of $650.00? I should have had it by now. It is already June.”
The second agent was a bit embarrassed and stated, “I am sorry for the delayed refund, but, according to what we are looking at on the screen you are asking not for $650.00, but, an excess of $25,000 from gambling debt over and above your claimed winnings.”
The taxpayer said, “I don’t know what is going on here, I want my $650.00 refund.”
With that, the second agent explained the return in the computer was fraudulent and identity theft and an investigation would follow. He stated information on how to deal with identity theft would be forthcoming in the mail. At that point the first agent begsn to make notes into the computer and scanned the correct return into place.
An entire year went by and the taxpayer made an appointment with the IRS office again. This time with the tax reporting forms for 2023. The agent was the same as last year and remembered the case of identity theft. The taxpayer stated there was still no refund from 2022 and I wanted to bring the 2023 return as it sort of negates the $650 a bit with a payment needed of $549.81.
The agent stated the 2022 was on hold and he would write the folks that need to take off the hold and reconcile the amount due with the expected refund. The taxpayer was satisfied all was well and still expecting a refund of $100.19.
Interesting this notice from the IRS arrived this year demanding their money and rather ruthlessly at that, BUT, the $100.19 still hadn’t been refunded. Not only that but the taxpayer is due a refund of the 2024 tax filing of another $650.00.
Now this taxpayer is worried the IRS is going to take some asset to satisfy the $549.81 when in fact the IRS still owes the taxpayer $750.19.
DoGE has failed its purpose and now it is attempting to collect every dime they believe is owed the USA Treasury regardless of the truth or injustice it carries. The sum of $549.81 hardly justifies what is happening here or the ruthless injustice leveled at the most vulnerable in our society.
DoGE was not created by Congress with a structured agenda with guide rails to carry out a mission. DoGE was conjured up by a billionaire with fantasies, including any idea Americans are lazy and won’t pay their taxes. The worst offender of tax evasion over decades of time sits in the Oval Office lamenting the fact President Zelenskyy and NATO was spot on about Putin! and he wasn’t.
