"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.
Mr. Ewart can be reached for comment at ron@www.narlo.org, or
by phone at 1 800 682-7848.
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