[Magdalen] Tax Collectors and Sinners

[Sibyl Smirl]

Thanks, Jim.  That helps some, but I'd still like to hear more from the 
IRS POV.  The whole thing sounds crazy!  I've heard stuff about that 
seizure business by law enforcement seizing cars and houses (and not 
giving them back) that they were just suspicious were used in drug 
violations, even when the rightful owners had zero guilt in the illegal 
drug stuff, but this is the first I've run into involving the IRS.  The 
whole thing sounds unAmerican and unConstitutional, actually, stealing 
people's stuff and money without even a crime, trial, and fine or court 
costs.  Just valuables being "held in evidence" is bad enough, but 
people usually get that stuff back, eventually, I thought, though it 
might take years.

On 5/3/15 12:07 PM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> Congress passed legislation limiting deposits to curb drug dealers. They
> included provisions to seize the money.
>
> THE IRS was charged with carrying out the law (that way people won’t get
> angry with their congressperson). But it's interpretation of the law
> involved lots of seizures from non-drug dealers, but after a NYTimes
> expose last year, changed their policy on how they carry out their
> Congressional mandate.
>
> Essentially, these folk are more victims of the "War on Drugs" which has
> been run by incompetents at all levels who couldn’t get a legitimate job
> if they tried.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>
> 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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