"The IRS - Inept, Criminally Negligent
and Hopelessly
Corrupt!"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
©
Copyright Sunday, July 21, 2013 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, July 11, 2013
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It isn't only organized crime that
can engage in racketeering. The worst kind of racketeering is when it is
conducted by government. But this crime in government goes by a
different name ..... CORRUPTION! Organized crime can
probably take your possessions without due process, or have you killed, but
it is not likely to be able to change public policy, or create laws
and regulations. In contrast, the IRS can create laws and
regulations, they can force you into bankruptcy, they can take your possessions
and empty your bank account without due process and they can put you in
jail. In fact the IRS can and does these things, regularly. With
this much power, the IRS can probably have you killed as well, if it is of a
mind. If they get caught at killing someone, they will just take the
Fifth, a' la Lois Lerner and a cast of tens of IRS thousands. The IRS is a
prime example of Lord Acton's famous quote: "power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely."
But what is even worse, this
monstrosity, this mega-bureaucracy (now over 100,000 employees
and growing) was established by those who purport to represent the
people. Then each year, those very same representatives feed the
IRS with layer after layer of social engineering, buried in voluminous
legislation that no one reads or understands, which spawns endless
regulations, confusing forms and un-decipherable instructions. Need
we mention Obama's Hellcare Legislation passed by only Democrats that is rapidly
speeding towards what Democrat Senator Max Baucus has called a train
wreck?
The IRS is so powerful that it can
target any individual or group simply by filing notices of
deficiencies, levies and liens for alleged or trumped-up taxes owed,
or file piles upon piles of paperwork on hapless taxpayers or groups to
obfuscate and delay whatever the taxpayer or group wants. They can and do
take information supplied by certain taxpayer groups (think conservative) and transfer the information to
those opposed to those taxpayer groups (think
liberal). They can award multi-million, or billion
dollar government contracts to their buddies without putting the contracts
out for bid, as required by law. They can pay out refunds to illegal
aliens by the millions, all at one address. The IRS can pay out
millions upon millions in child tax credits to illegal aliens who use children
in Mexico to claim their refunds. They can waste millions of taxpayer
dollars on lavish conferences, presidential suites, stupid videos, gag gifts and
bonuses. Not only can they, they have.
But woe be to the hapless taxpayer
that gets caught in their sights. The IRS is arrogant, persistent,
relentless, inflexible, arbitrary and capricious. We know. We were
one of those that ended up in their sights. Now it may
be just a coincidence that this author is a conservative writer and
then again, maybe it isn't. However, it certainly wasn't a coincidence
when they targeted the Tea Party, Patriot, certain churches and Israel
groups, was it?
We'll show you just how arbitrary and
capricious the IRS can be with our own story.
In the latter part of 2011, the
IRS sent us a Notice that we owed taxes for Calendar Year
2009. We filed a letter and legal affidavit stating that we would pay
the amount owed upon receipt of their response to around 11 specific conditions
contained in the affidavit. Believe it or
not, they sent us a NO TAX DUE letter in response to our affidavit.
Then in the latter part of 2012 they
sent us another letter stating that we owed more taxes for Calendar Year 2010
for the exact same reason they determined there was NO TAX DUE for Calendar Year
2009. We sent them a response stating that there can be NO TAX
DUE for 2010 for the same thing that there was NO TAX DUE for 2009.
We received another letter from the IRS stating that they didn't accept our 2009
argument and they filed a Notice of Deficiency for 2010. That, ladies and
gentlemen, is arbitrary and capricious.
So once again we filed a letter and
legal affidavit stating we would pay the tax upon receipt of answers to our
conditions in an affidavit.
Because of the arbitrary and
capricious way the IRS was treating us and in order to preserve our Fifth
Amendment rights against self-incrimination, we crossed out the perjury
statement on the back side of Form 1040 for Calendar Year 2011 and replaced it
with a signed statement that said this:
“We hereby state and affirm that we personally
prepared the attached IRS Form 1040 for Calendar-Year 2011 and the accompanying
Schedule E and we did so to the best of our knowledge and capability. However, we make no warrantees, express
or implied, that said Form 1040 is accurate in all respects, as there is no way
we could possibly understand all of the tens of thousands of tax laws and we
have no way to know if said tax return is true or correct, even if a tax
professional prepared it for us.
Therefore, we would be committing perjury to sign the tax return perjury
statement when we do not understand all of the constantly changing tax laws
contained in the IRS Tax Code, nor could we ever understand them in our
lifetime.”
Well this
really ticked them off.
While waiting for a response to
our affidavit for the 2010 issue, in February 2013 they sent us a demand letter
stating that if we did not re-submit our Calendar Year 2011 return by signing
the perjury statement, they would fine us $5,000 each, husband and wife.
Once again, later in that month, we responded with a letter and legal affidavit
stating that we would re-submit our Calendar Year 2011 return with the perjury
statement signed, upon receipt of responses to a set of conditions contained in
the affidavit.
After waiting the required 30 days
for a response and receiving none, we sent them a letter that pursuant to the
Uniform Commercial Code under which they operate and the provisions of 27
CFR 72.11, their demand to re-submit our Calendar Year 2011 return was null and
void, under law.
Then on June 12, 2013 with no
response to our affidavit, we received an unsigned Civil Penalty
Notice under IRC 6702(a) that the IRS was assessing each of us a $5,000 penalty
for filing a frivolous return pursuant to IRS Notice 2007-30 covering what the
IRS considers as frivolous positions. What is even more alarming
is that one of the $5,000 assessment notices came from Fresno, CA and the other
notice came from Holtsville, NY. Why? Does the right IRS hand not
know what the left IRS hand is doing? The problem is, out of the 40
frivolous positions in IRS Notice 2007-30, they picked one frivolous
position that they alleged we violated, but in fact of law, we did not violate
it.
Amazingly, just four days later, on
June 17, 2013 we received a Notice of NO TAX DUE for the Calendar Year 2010
issue, in response to our letter and legal affidavit.
Now if you didn't follow the order of
events here, we'll sum it up for you.
Twice the IRS came after us for
additional taxes. Twice we filed legal affidavits in compliance with
current law, agreeing to pay the tax due if the IRS would respond to a set
of conditions in the submitted affidavit. We had every legal right to file
those affidavits under law. Twice they responded with NO TAX DUE. We
also filed a similar letter and legal affidavit in response to their demand to
re-submit our Calendar Year 2011 return by signing the perjury statement.
Since we didn't comply with their demand, their response was to assess each of
us with a $5,000 penalty for filing a frivolous return, which wasn't
frivolous. They ignored our letter and affidavit and they ignored our
letter stating that they failed to respond to our legal presentment (the affidavit) thereby rendering their demand null and void
under law. Once again, their actions are arbitrary and
capricious. We're still fighting the assessment to get it removed, and we
will because the assessment is bogus and very possibly retaliatory for being a
conservative writer.
Twice the IRS acted arbitrarily and
capriciously against us when for over 50 years we have filed our tax returns and
paid the legal amount of taxes each year. So they found the time to attack
us for an alleged violation that wasn't a violation at all, but they didn't find
the time to stop $46,000,000 in refunds going to one address in Florida for over
23,000 illegal aliens. They didn't stop the millions of dollars being paid
to illegal aliens who were filing false tax returns to game the system by
applying for child tax credits with children living in Mexico. They didn't
much care about how much taxpayer dollars they spent on lavish conferences and
stupid promotion videos. They didn't stop the illegal targeting of
conservative groups seeking 501(c)4 tax exempt status, did they? This is
what we do know. We can virtually guarantee you that what we do know
is just the tip of the IRS iceberg.
Once again we ask, are we being
targeted by the IRS because we are a conservative writer and have openly
criticized the government and more particularly the IRS? The government
hits our website regularly. We know they are monitoring us because when
we write a controversial article, the hits to our website from the
government quickly rise. For all we know our phone is tapped, we have been
labeled a terrorist organization and we are on the no-fly list. Our
calls and e-mails are probably being logged because after all, isn't the
definition of a terrorist, according to Obama's Homeland Security Department
(think DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano) a tea party
or patriot group, or a returning veteran? Meanwhile, the FBI lets
two Boston Muslim bombers slip through their fingers and people die and hundreds
are injured at the Boston Marathon.
There are many who will tell
you that you don't owe IRS taxes and they will cite all kinds of law to prove
their point. It doesn't make any difference.
The IRS still has the POWER to fine you into oblivion or put you in jail.
Your only legal defense is in court and there is a trail
of lost fortunes and extended incarceration for those who have dared
to take this route. Not only
that, the IRS makes up stuff. They break taxpayer agreements with
reckless abandon. We've seen them do it. They have the POWER and
they use it with a vengeance. Anyone who thinks they don't owe taxes and
acts on it is headed for a world of hurt. Even those that are rich and can
afford the fight have lost. Just ask actor Wesley Snipes.
So whether someone tells you that there is no law
to pay income taxes, that doesn't silence the IRS's power over
you. If they want, they
will find you and they will hound you and they will fine and penalize you into
bankruptcy whether or not their allegations are valid, or throw your sorry
a..... in jail. Face it! You are nothing more than an indentured
servant to the government and the IRS.
Our experience with the IRS is just
one experience out of the millions of Americans who have run afoul of the
out-of-control IRS. We share that experience in this article to shine a
light on what they are doing and have done and how arbitrary and capricious they
are and can be. We know they have the power to bury us but we also know
that they don't like public exposure of their misdeeds, as can be seen
by all the waffling and "Fifth Amendment taking" they are doing over the current
scandal. It was the goal of this article to provide that exposure.
To aid in that exposure, we strongly encourage our readers to share
this article with everyone they know, in the hopes that the "light" we
shine will start to impede the criminal negligence and corruption that exists in
this inept bureaucratic government agency that we allege is a criminal
racketeering enterprise, knows no bounds, nor has no master, except maybe the
President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, who may just be one of the
least transparent, most corrupt and imperial presidents America has ever
known. It is this same president who takes a certain
perverse pleasure at thumbing his nose at the U. S. Congress and doing pretty
much whatever he damn well pleases, perhaps even directing the IRS to target
conservative individuals and groups and pay off illegal aliens with our tax
dollars.
Have you been abused by the IRS or
any other government agency for any reason? Tell us your story and we will
publish it in our newsletter, "The EGA
Investigator", Exposing Government Abuses, either
with your name or anonymous ..... at your discretion.
Ron Ewart, a nationally
known author and speaker on freedom and property issues and author of his weekly
column, "In
Defense of Rural America", is the President of the National
Association of Rural Landowners, (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) a non-profit
corporation headquartered in Washington State and dedicated to restoring,
maintaining and defending property rights for urban and rural landowners.
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