Friday, November 03, 2023
Commentary: The Internal Revenue Service’s AI Announcement Is Really About Taxpayer Intimidation
The IRS commissioner announced last month that the agency will now deploy artificial intelligence in pursuit of “wealthy tax cheats” who are using partnership structures to pay “little to no tax.” But the announcement’s logic doesn’t pass the smell test — the real intent seems to be to intimidate successful small businesspeople away from using legal tax minimization strategies.
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One thing is true of all governments - their most reliable records are tax records. - Chief Inspector Finch V for Vendetta (2005)
ReplyDeleteNo, the real intent is investigate the shit out of every last one of us.
ReplyDeleteThis^^^^.
DeleteI guess the 80,000 new IRS agents they're supposed to be hiring can't do math and investigations on their own. This begs to the question: What are those people really being hired for?
Let's not forget that during Obozo's administration, the IRS bought something like 40,000 new firearms, including AR's, M4's and a shit ton of semi-auto pistols, a couple trillion rounds of ammo and enough body armor to equip an infantry division.
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Will the Biden crime family be included?
ReplyDeleteThe IRS likes to claim we have a "voluntary" tax system (because people "voluntarily" file their own returns) but everyone knows it is BS. It's a system built on intimidation and fear. And the IRS likes it that way.
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