The only way for Congress and the D.C. Elites to keep the current income/payroll tax system is to dramatically decrease the estimated $9 trillion of illegal evasion over the next ten years. They have been covering up the evasion problem by borrowing money, but even Congress and the D.C. Elites are seeing that this cannot continue indefinitely. The great unwashed are getting restless and questioning their rulers in D.C.
How do they reduce evasion under the present income tax system? The only way is to greatly expand the activities of the IRS. Now, only .7% of the filed returns are audited and 70% of these audits are correspondence audits where you are asked to explain why you did not include some income or to provide other information. Correspondence audits rarely detect evasion.
If you have dealt with the IRS, you know that many of them are decent people doing an increasingly unpopular job--taking money away from us. However, like all positions that give people power over others, the IRS seems to attract people who enjoy creating problems for people.
In 1887, British politician known as Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It is frightening to consider giving the IRS absolute power which is what they will need to combat criminal evasion.
Our Changing Labor Force
Another problem for Congress and the Elites is that our labor force will be 40% non-traditional workers by 2020. This means that more and more people will be in the position of receiving all of their money as independent contractors, and then being asked to pay their taxes which are not withheld at the source.
Much to the chagrin of Congress and the Elites, these groups are not choosing to pay the income/payroll taxes they owe. Because there is no withholding, Congress and the Elites are not able to grab the income/payroll taxes before the employees get their check.
An Example of IRS Abuse
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) is charged with examining the activities of the IRS and pointing out when the IRS gets it right and when it gets it wrong. In a report filed by TIGTA, it was found that the IRS seriously abused their power.
The report found that the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Criminal Investigation (CI) division is charged with enforcing the Bank Secrecy Act’s (BSA) anti-structuring provisions. In short, this law requires financial institutions to report currency transactions in excess of $10,000. It is a crime to structure currency transactions in such a way as to avoid the filing of the report, and subjects people making smaller deposits to avoid these reports to civil or criminal forfeiture proceedings.
The TIGTA audit was started after complaints from taxpayers about improper seizures of property without sufficient evidence of a crime.
TIGTA determined that 91 percent of the forfeitures investigated were improper. Instead of hiding illegal money, these 91 percent of forfeitures were seized from businesses and individuals whose funds were obtained legally. Most people impacted by the program did not appear to be criminal enterprises engaged in other alleged illegal activity; rather, they were legal businesses such as jewelry stores, restaurant owners, gas station owners, scrap metal dealers, and others.
The report also pointed out that one of the reasons why legal source [not sure what “source” is doing here?] cases were pursued was that the Department of Justice had encouraged task forces to engage in “quick hits,” where property was more quickly seized and more quickly resolved through negotiation, rather than pursuing cases with other criminal activity (such as drug trafficking and money laundering), which are more time-consuming.
TIGTA determined that, in most cases, the IRS generally relied on the pattern of currency transactions to support the seizure, rather than initially seeking information from the property owners. When property owners were interviewed after the seizure, agents did not always identify themselves properly, did not explain the purpose of the interviews, did not advise property owners of any rights they might have, and told property owners they had committed a crime at the conclusion of the interviews.
TIGTA also found that, in 54 cases, property owners gave reasonable explanations for why currency transactions did not exceed $10,000, and, in most cases, TIGTA found no evidence that these explanations were investigated.
Conclusion
The IRS has promised to stop abusing its power. However, few of us believe that they actually will. Picking on small business people and individuals and then extorting a "settlement" of a portion of the illegally and wrongfully seized money is too tempting.
They don't want to go after the drug dealers and criminals because they might get shot. So, they look for the easy prey who will not be able to fight back or fight them.
If you think it is bad now, think about how much worse it will be when Congress and the D.C Elites realize that they have to confront the evasion crisis. That is our future if we keep the income/payroll tax.
If we don't continue to tell the truth and demand a change, then this quote from George Orwell's 1984 may foretell our children's future:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
WHAT CAN EACH OF US DO
Call up the local or D.C. office of the House Member and two Senators and you can use the following script:
- I am sure that Representative ____ or Senator ____ is in favor of everyone obeying the income tax laws.
- After they assure you that their boss is not in favor of anyone breaking the law, ask if they are aware of the Cebula study showing $9 trillion of evaded income/payroll taxes over the next ten years.
- Since most will say they don’t believe their boss has seen the study, either drop off a copy or get an email address and send a copy to them for their boss.
- Say you are going to call back in a week and ask what the Representative or Senator is going to do to stop this evasion.
- In a week, call back and ask specifically what the Representative or Senator is going to do to enforce the law.
- They probably will say their boss believes that simplifying the income tax will handle the problem.
- Explain that when people evade income taxes, they are also evading the 15.3% payroll/Medicare tax and state income tax. So it is unlikely that they are going to pay 30% or 40% when they were paying 0% because they have already decided it is okay to cheat.
- Say that the only way to reduce evasion is to increase by tens or hundreds of thousands the number of comprehensive IRS audits done each year.
- Point out that Evaders do not self-identify by putting an “E” on their income tax return.
- 80% of the people likely to be audited are trying to comply, but they will be forced to endure these IRS audits as well.
- Ask if the Member is in favor of this?
- If they say no, then ask again how the Member proposes to stop people breaking the income tax laws.
- Then explain that the way to handle evasion without unleashing the IRS audits is the FAIRtax.
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