IRS Agent Used Fake Identity, told Attorney He Was Entitled to Enter Home
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The most important part here is that the person visited wasn't the target, the target was fucking DEAD.
They're going after dead peoples incorrect filings almost a decade back, and harassing the executor of their estate.
And they're going to arm 87 000 people like him and unleash them on the streets.
Not only that, but they could go after Pichai, Dorsey, Cook and SuckerBucks, and get a lot more out of it, while avoiding the additional expense of 87.000 IRS agents. Most of them have lied under oath before congress, have meddled in state elections, have presented themselves as clear and evident dangers to the public by their constant and rapacious attacks on their users' privacy. Take downs that would actually be worth a damn.
Lying in furtherance of The Right Side of History(tm) is a good thing. Meddling in elections in support of the "correct" candidates is a good thing. Being a clear and evident danger is fine as long as you're not a danger to the Party. And as long as they keep handing over all that data when asked the privacy violations are exactly what the government wants.
Why would they want to go after some of their best allies?
I read a book about the IRS once, the author used to work there. He said that at one time there was an extremely high correlation between a certain type of trust and tax evasion. It wasn't a trust that many people had, mostly all rich people using it to avoid paying taxes.
At the time, it was still mostly or all paper returns. They ran the returns through a scanning program that extracted key info for their database and then filed the actual paper return in a box somewhere. He proposed altering the scanning program to record when someone put this type of trust on their taxes, and then manually reviewing them to see if it was legitimate or tax evasion. He estimated they would recover millions, but the software department said it would be around $10,000 in programming costs, so his bosses shut it down.
The book also said that they don't go after rich people because they'll hire a team of lawyers and fight for years, so the IRS mostly targets poor and middle income people who can't afford to fight them and they can just slam them with penalties and fees or negotiate a settlement where the taxpayer waives their right to contest it in court.
It's basically the IRS's version of when a prosecutor charges someone with a dozen crimes to get them to make a plea bargain and plead guilty to the charge they really wanted to convict them of in the first place so they get the win without having to go to trial.
Good enough for government work.
Republicans are trying to remove the funding but it hasn't happened yet.