[Magdalen] Tax Collectors and Sinners

[Sibyl Smirl]

Actually, I just wanted to get your attention, IRS people.  ;^)

Somebody posted this on Facebook, and I don't understand this story at all:
http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/01/irs-steals-107000-from-convenience-store#.rf3kiy:1UuI

Why is "structuring" in itself illegal, before the IRS changed its 
policy?  And is IRS "policy" the law of the land?  The story does 
explain what structuring is, that is, deposits under $10K, but with a 
convenience store, gasoline, and restaurant, I'd think that that sort of 
business would deposit its receipts daily, and that such receipts 
wouldn't be anywhere near $10K in a day, anyway.  You surely wouldn't 
want to keep that kind of money in the business safe until it piled up 
over the $10K?  And even if the IRS had screwed up and seized his bank 
account, why wouldn't they just give the money back, or why wouldn't 
they have simply frozen it and left it with the bank until he'd proved 
he wasn't doing anything illegal?  And why not just call for an audit, 
in the first place, if they were suspicious?  None of this makes any 
sense to me!

Can either of you explain it?


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