The IRS to hire 87,000 new agents. Who will they go after?

ANThonyBoreDaneCook said:

Show this advice to the IRS when/if you get audited. I'm sure they'll allow your deductions after they see that you can't provide any detailed trip information.

Let us know how it works out!

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Heisenburger said:

I welcome them. I track once daily every work day. I welcome any challenge because I'm bulletproof. Free sample:

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just_me said:

No defunding of the IRS, I’m afraid - not while we have a 30 trillion dollar national debt to payoff, in addition to the 7 trillion dollar projected short fall that Janet Yellen was talking about.

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That debt will never be Paid - off. As the Service does not take in enough for the next 100 years.

Should one become a Tax Protester, learn certain sections of the Internal Revenue Code, and understand how and why the IRC is written like it is. Then the realization will be had.

But man is lazy and would rather have a so called professional do your return for you. After all he will go to bat for you even though you signed there Return is true and correct right. Course most have a reasonable expectation that it is.

ANThonyBoreDaneCook said:

Show this advice to the IRS when/if you get audited. I'm sure they'll allow your deductions after they see that you can't provide any detailed trip information.

Let us know how it works out!

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Please help us all by quoting the specific part of the tax code that supports what you're alleging. I've started it for you by supplying the starting pages:

notouber said:

They want all proof on paper.

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Not in 2022.

Heisenburger said:

Please help us all by quoting the specific part of the tax code that supports what you're alleging. I've started it for you by supplying the starting pages:

Topic No. 510, Business Use of Car | Internal Revenue Service

IRS Tax Topic on deductible car expenses such as mileage, depreciation, and recordkeeping requirements.

www.irs.gov

Topic No. 305, Recordkeeping | Internal Revenue Service

Topic No. 305, Recordkeeping

www.irs.gov

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Look, this is a topic that has been battled on this site repeatedly. From my perspective, I've read enough stories online and heard a few stories from friends about the IRS busting their balls over the lack of detailed trip information in mileage logs. Personally? That is not a battle I wish to have. Even if I won, I still wouldn't want to waste the time, effort and frustration, when I could just simply keep impeccable records.

I use TripLog.
I manually start and stop every trip, which probably takes up a total of three minutes of my day.
I write off the expense.
Done...

Now if the IRS comes knocking, I can hand them a 12 inch stack of perfectly detailed information and laugh in their face.

That's my personal preference.
You do you homeboy.
Best of luck.

ANThonyBoreDaneCook said:

You do you homeboy.

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ANThonyBoreDaneCook said:

this is a topic that has been battled on this site repeatedly

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Which means that the stories are just that: stories, anecdotes, and thus not worth diddly. I'm wholly unconcerned with "well my uncle knows a guy who..." Anecdotes are about as useful as **** on a bull.

I don't see some IRS monkey trying to play games by demanding something in the records that their own tax code doesn't even suggest, much less specify as required. And who cares if you happen to find yourself an IRS cowboy, just call their bluff in a courtroom.

Heisenburger said:

And who cares if you happen to find yourself an IRS cowboy, just call their bluff in a courtroom.

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Again, with the way I perform my record keeping, I'll never find myself in a courtroom. If you're into that sort of thing then godspeed.
You're looking to have the argument and I'm looking to avoid it.

Heisenburger said:

just call their bluff in a courtroom.

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You will never get to there Tax Court, On the very extremely rare case that one might, you can only argue the amount owed and nothing else.

ANThonyBoreDaneCook said:

Show this advice to the IRS when/if you get audited. I'm sure they'll allow your deductions after they see that you can't provide any detailed trip information.

Let us know how it works out!

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So far, so good for the past two years!

87,000 is not happening. The funding has been pulled.

Source?
[QUOTE="Amsoil Uber Connect, post: 7647088, member: 7805"]
87,000 is not happening. The funding has been pulled.[/QUOTE]

Sorry I don't have it. Just heard it was one of the first things the new GOP did.

Did you even look ? Now that wasn't so hard now was it.
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House passes bill nixing $72 billion in funding for 87,000 new IRS agents
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DOA when it gets to the Senate!

Amsoil Uber Connect said:

Sorry I don't have it. Just heard it was one of the first things the new GOP did.

Did you even look ? Now that wasn't so hard now was it.
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House passes bill nixing $72 billion in funding for 87,000 new IRS agents

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In order for this to be real it would need to pass in the Senate and be signed by the President. Gubment 101.

just_me said:

Most likely the gig economy workers.

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More proof of who the IRS will be targeting first:


A lot of fraudulent claims (more than $60 billion worth) apparently were made during the lockdown.

I read that. Anything for a good show.

I've had fun reading about those they have caught, people who had a party of a time until they were sent to prison for ten years.

TakeFive said:

I read that. Anything for a good show.

I've had fun reading about those they have caught, people who had a party of a time until they were sent to prison for ten years.

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Low hanging fruit first

The IRS to hire 87,000 new agents. Who will they go after?
Who do you think ? they will go after the 87 000 new people that want to work from the inside to evade paying taxes

The lame news said yesterday that the service is asking or saying you can wait to file and have until Oct 16th. The 15th must be on a Sunday then. Don't know what there real reasoning is for this. However, the way it has been, legally, is one could file for an extension by April 15th giving you an extra six months. Then make sure you get your Return filed by then, Oct 16th.

I was lucky enough the learn this and used it against there Collection Procedure and saved thousands. Buts a different story.

Related tax topic.... filed my 17 yr old's Fed/State returns on Saturday. Got his AZ tax refund today, 3 days later. Too bad it's only $52.

No, the IRS is not hiring 87,000 new agents to increase middle-class audits

The majority of IRS hires would fill positions of people leaving the agency over the next decade. That includes staff across departments, not just auditors...