Bush Stimulus Payment Plans to Be
Thwarted for Millions by IRS
Stimulus Checks Due for Delivery This Month for Many – Will Never Arrive as Cash Payments
Any taxpayer having a dispute with the IRS will most likely find their stimulus check held up or paid in an unexpected manner. Taxpayers, who have already received letters advising them of past taxes due, will have the value of their stimulus checks credited against the payments the IRS says is owed.Although the stimulus package is designed to stimulate the economy the IRS has coordinated with the Treasury department to attach and seize payments that should have been sent to millions of taxpayers. On checking with the IRS it was learned that even taxpayers who have not agreed with the IRS on the amount of back taxes, interest and penalties owed may find they receive no stimulus checks.
Complaints to the IRS about this unilateral policy have met with a reaction akin to running into a stonewall. No justification has been given for the policy except to say that repayments to the US Government take priority. The IRS states the individuals to whom this apply are receiving their stimulus payments but not in the form of cash. The IRS considers the payments as credits against past amounts due as legal and legitimate.Taxpayers who find themselves in this situation should immediately contact their congressional representatives in both the House and Senate.
Those that we have checked with have been shocked to hear what the IRS is doing and stated that this is against the intent of the stimulus package.
A review of the IRS website at this URL http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=179181,00.html revealed no information on this policy of sidetracking payments that were supposed to be made in cash to all eligible taxpayers.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/754659/bush_stimulus_payment_plans_to_be_thwarted.html?cat=75
FAKE IRS WEBSITES & SCAMS
ALL official IRS websites will start with http://www.irs.gov/
The promise of tax refunds, rebate checks, or 2008 Stimulus Payments has caused a surge in phishing scams and many anxious tax filers are falling for it. Frequently, as the news has been reporting, these come in the form of emails. However, there is another type of phishing that seems to have been left out. The other way for scammers to gather your personal info does not involve an email and is happening on websites including right here on AC. Don’t fall for this tactic, learn how to spot a fake IRS website, safely check your rebate status without entering anything, and keep your personal info safe!1. Learn how to identify and avoid fake IRS websites.
I found a link to a fake IRS site but it didn’t come in my email. I found a link to the phishing website while surfing the web. Specifically, I found the link right here on one of these Associated Content pages. AC articles can take comments from member and non-member commenters. Occasionally non-members come not to read the article, but to piggyback on popular articles and post ads with typed links, links which you should be cautious of.In the comments on a popular article right here on Associated Content, one non-member commenter left a link to what looked like a fake IRS website. The website did not begin with http://www.irs.gov/ however, it had the letters www.irs.gov somewhere within the address, making it appear official when it really wasn’t. According to the IRS website, ALL official IRS websites will start with http://www.irs.gov/ meaning ANY website that doesn’t start with exactly that is a fake, a scam website. ( Note that the exception to this is the IRS’s search result page, which starts http://search.irs.gov/ however, entering just that in your address bar redirects to the IRS homepage, with the official address. You get to the search results page by doing searches on official pages, or if you save a particular past search you did on the site, such as in your favorites. )
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Kerry, I’d like to see the IRS gone. Flushed.
This is one of the appeals of the federal sales tax.
All tax would be collected from businesses, not individuals.
April 15 would become just another lovely spring day.
No more money pulled away from a person when he earns a paycheck. Instead the tax would be payed as money is spent.
The IRS is above the law. They can sieze property without due process and they have their own special courts.
The hated rich have influenced the IRS law through tax attornies and lobbyists until the law itself is beyond comprehension.
Please explore this option – the federal sales tax.
Comment by grimgold — June 21, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
GRIM, I too would like to see the IRS and their goon squads gone. It was SUPPOSED TO BE A TEMPORARY TAX. But like all “TEMPORARY” taxes, surcharges and what ever else name they tack on, once the gov gets their greedy little paws on a buck they are not about to let go. I have explored the alternative and there are pros and cons to all of them. This country did pretty well BEFORE the IRS on property tax alone.
Nothing will change until we the people vote out all the enablers who support giving Dubya and his ilk every damned thing they want and more, without much more than a token resistance!
Get rid of lobbyists, earmarks and loopholes that the rich, oil companies and corporations use to avoid paying taxes and get religion out of government like the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Too bad that all politicians don’t have to pass a test on American History, Government and The Constitution BEFORE they file to run for ANY office.
Comment by kerry — June 22, 2008 @ 10:38 am
What’s even more interesting is the states using both the income tax and the sales tax to collect income – that way fleecing people without them crying out so loudly because they don’t feel the fleecing in one painful lump.
You know darn good and well that we won’t get rid of the means for oils and others to avoid taxes. However, if they instead had to pay consumption they’d have a hard time avoiding taxes.
Further, the underground economy consisting of huge amounts of money for drugs and such avoids income tax quite obviously. These billions would be taxed under the national sales tax.
A lot of corporations are going international in order to avoid tax. Huge moneys are banked overseas avoiding tax. Not possible with consumption tax. Then when corporations spent the money (on capital equipment such as machinery, buildings, wood and paint for their widgets, etc.) they would pay the tax.
The earmarks spawned by govt supports govt, especially the federal bureacrats. For example, agricultural subsidies. Fed govt employees depend on the BILLIONS given to farmers needessly in order to justify bureaucrats govt positions.
Welfare has in the past done much more for govt than the people that it was supposed to help, obviously.
This is why I’m a conservative – I want smaller government and the resultant lower taxes. I want govt bureaucrats, especially the several hundred thousand employed by the IRS to go find honest employment.
Incidentally, the removal of the gold standard by FDR was also supposed to be temporary.
We need to go back to a currency that cannot be inflated.
People say to me that we simply can’t go back to a gold standard, which is wrong, but I suppose another way could be found. Dollars by govt declaration (fiat currency) depends on honest govt to work – something we certainly do not have. Inflation benefits only the govt. Period. Something must be done to stop it. We had ZERO inflation for 120 years and can have it again. Inflation creates poor people. It must come to an end.
I’m glad you agree with me about the IRS.
Thanks for the response, Grimmy
Comment by grimgold — June 22, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
GRIM, I don’t think we can go back to the gold standard, see what I have been researching for months. Today’s post, THE GOLD OF FORT KNOX???
I don’t know how we can stop the government graft and corruption either, it seems that any halfway honest politician that gets into office quickly succumbs to the greed and perks they are exposed to.
I don’t know where it will all end but I do have a feeling it will be violent and bloody as have been the revolutions of the overtaxed, hungry peasants of history rising up against their greedy, ruling royalty.
Comment by kerry — June 23, 2008 @ 9:34 am
I’d also like to see the IRS gone. I’d like to see a more simplified system.
I’m not so sure how I feel about a flat tax. But I wouldn’t mind the ideas they’re kicking around about a sales tax.
Comment by jaredemyers — September 10, 2008 @ 6:57 am