Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, March 15, 2010

IRS: Vacuuming the Sofa for Spare Change

The IRS saw fit to sent two gun-toting (presumably) agents to a car wash to demand that the owner pay his back taxes.

The amount due: Four cents. With the IRS's claims on penalties and interest, the amount they said the guy owed was $202.35, which means that those goons tacked on $202.31 on top of four cents in taxes.

For that, the IRS sent out two of their thugs to visit the taxpayer?

Somebody had to have been below their quota for "numbers of taxpayers harassed."

(H/T)

2 comments:

Phil said...

It's stupid bullshit like this that makes all government look bad. The tea-baggers look smart by comparison.

BadTux said...

The folks on the McClatchy site seem dubious, pointing out that in general the IRS allows you to round off to the nearest dollar, so wouldn't be trying to collect 4 cents. McClatchy says the IRS said they could not comment on any taxpayer's situation due to privacy laws, which does not give us any light on whether these guys were actual IRS agents, or were a band of armed robbers who have developed a very nifty scam for robbing places without getting the cops called on them. Six of one, a half dozen of the other, hmm...

The IRS once audited my father, who owned a small shop. They managed to get a small hidden camera into the store and put it over the cash register. At the end of a week they stormed in, retrieved their camera, and verified what it saw my father putting into the register against my father's totals and against the number of customers they'd seen going into the shop. They said there was 6 cents difference, and refused to say which way, but slunk off and never were seen again. Hmm...

- Badtux the Skeptical Penguin