The IRS has decided to rethink their strategy of sending agents to make unannounced surprise visits to taxpayers at their home. It’s not because of the recent accusations that it’s been done for witness intimidation but because they’re afraid pissed off taxpayers are going to start shooting revenooers again.
IRS won’t knock on your door
The IRS announced on July 24 that the Infernal Revenue Service “is ending the decades-long practice of unannounced revenue officer visits to taxpayers.” They’re trying to fix some of their issues with “optics” and “decrease taxpayer confusion.”
They particularly want to “enhance safety measures.” Americans are awful fond of their Second Amendment rights and tend to exercise them regularly.
When they aren’t intimidating taxpayers like Matt Taibbi by showing up at their door while they’re busy testifying to Congress about federal overreach, “IRS revenue officers typically visit households and businesses to assist taxpayers in resolving their account balances.”
????CHILLING & DISTURBING????
The IRS made an unannounced visit to the Home of #Twitterfiles Journalist Matt Taibbi ON THE DAY he was Testifying Before Congress. It can only be interpreted as WITNESS INTIMIDATION.There is NO END to the Police State under Biden.
All Americans… pic.twitter.com/W78s6CLAp7
— LionHearted (@LionHearted76) March 28, 2023
Well, that and “collect unpaid taxes.” Don’t worry about all those armed agents you read about, they assure. That’s exaggeration, they claim.
They haven’t stopped it completely, carving out exceptions for a “few unique circumstances.” Other than that, “these unannounced visits will end effective immediately and taxpayers will instead receive a mailed letter to schedule appointments.”
The IRS was also careful to explain that “the ‘rare‘ unannounced visits will include summonses, subpoenas and ‘sensitive enforcement activities,‘ which include the seizure of assets — noting these situations usually number less than a few hundred each year.”
A fresh look
With the federal government looking ever more weaponized every day, the honchos decided to take “a fresh look at how the IRS operates to better serve taxpayers and the nation.” They’re actually going out of their way to make a “common-sense step.”
As Commissioner Danny Werfel announced in his statement, “changing this long-standing procedure will increase confidence in our tax administration work and improve overall safety for taxpayers and IRS employees.” Most especially, the employees.
Scammers have been making them look even worse than they are, Werfel admits, pointing to “a rise in scammers posing as IRS agents who cause confusion among taxpayers and law enforcement.” Especially when they read about all the armed agents recently recruited.
The IRS announced it will "end most" unannounced home visits in a move that "reverses a decades-long practice."
Twitter Files reporter @mtaibbi was a victim of one such visit and testified about it to Congress. | @ariblaff https://t.co/YDYcasP055
— National Review (@NRO) July 24, 2023
“These visits created extra anxiety for taxpayers already wary of potential scam artists. At the same time, the uncertainty around what the IRS employees faced when visiting these homes created stress for them as well.”
Werfel acknowledges that they “have the tools we need to successfully collect revenue without adding stress with unannounced visits. The only losers with this change in policy are scammers posing as the IRS.” People are especially concerned because Joe Biden gave them “$80 billion in funding and brought significant changes to the country’s tax code.”
He needs to claw every penny he can get in taxes. That’s ironic considering his family’s web of shell companies they’ve been getting away with using to hide their criminally obtained assets. Hunter Biden even got away with writing hookers off on his taxes as a business expense, along with travel and hotel fees for his coke dealer.
