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The Government Is Coming For Your Bitcoin
– The government is coming for your Bitcoin:
The same day Bitcoin cracked its all-time high above $11,000, the government dealt its first blow to the crypto world…
On Wednesday, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the popular Bitcoin exchange, Coinbase, to provide the IRS with information on over 14,000 account holders.
The taxman noticed that only 800-900 people reported gains related to Bitcoin in each of the years between 2013-2015. It seemed unusual given Bitcoin’s meteoric rise.
So the IRS went for its pound of flesh.
Obama’s IRS Admits To Specifically Targeting Tea Party Conservatives
– Obama’s IRS Admits To Specifically Targeting Tea Party Conservatives:
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has won a years-long legal battle against the Internal Revenue Service in which the agency admitted that it wrongfully targeted Tea Party conservatives, during the Obama Administration, specifically because of their political viewpoints.
In issuing an “apology” to the clients represented by the ACLJ, the IRS admitted that it was wrong to use the United States tax code simply because of an entity’s name.
They also admitted the bombshell fact that this discrimination happened specifically because of the applicants political viewpoints. Keep in mind the fact that the mainstream media has spent years telling the American people that this didn’t happen.
In other words, outlets such as The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times directly lied to their readers and viewers to protect a Democratic president whose administration was openly breaking the law.
Surprise. Surprise.
On top of an admission of guilt, the IRS apology also included:
Read moreObama’s IRS Admits To Specifically Targeting Tea Party Conservatives
IRS Rehires Hundreds of Employees Fired for Fraud, Theft, Abusing Taxpayer Data
– IRS Rehires Hundreds of Employees Fired for Fraud, Theft, Abusing Taxpayer Data:
The Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that under Commissioner John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service re-hired 212 employees it had previously fired for offenses including tax evasion, theft, and abuse of taxpayer data.
The title of the report makes it clear that the IRS “continues to rehire former employees with conduct and performance issues.” The inspection was requested by a U.S. Senator, who is not named in the report, although Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced legislation to block the agency from rehiring such employees shortly after the report was released.
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H/t reader kevin a.
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Your Bitcoin is NOT Anonymous: IRS Moves To Track Bitcoiners With New Chain Analysis Tools
– Your Bitcoin is NOT Anonymous: IRS Moves To Track Bitcoiners With New Chain Analysis Tools
H/t reader squodgy:
“Looks about right. How cheeky/naive of them to assume they’d avoid paying taxes to our bankster masters…Tut tut tut.”
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IRS Seized Millions of Dollars from Innocent Citizens Because It Was Easier Than Going After Crooks
– IRS Seized Millions of Dollars from Innocent Citizens Because It Was Easier Than Going After Crooks:
The IRS seized millions dollars from innocent individuals and businesses because it was easier than targeting terrorists and drug dealers, a new report from the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog has revealed.
A report from Treasury’s Inspector General found that the IRS misused a law aimed at cracking down on organized crime and terrorism to target innocent individuals and businesses. Agents adopted a policy of seizing cash before investigating for other wrongdoing because it was just easier to seize the money of innocent people than hardened criminals and terrorists.
How The IRS Can Empty Your Bank Account Without Warning
– How The IRS Can Empty Your Bank Account Without Warning:
Having just filed his 2016 taxes, a Zero Hedge reader submits the following bizarre story.
On January 20, the reader filed his Federal tax return using Tim Geithner’s favorite TurboTax software, which the IRS formally accepted three days later, on January 24. One week later, on January 31, the IRS made an automatic deposit into the reader’s bank account, who then used the refund to pay down his credit card debt the very next day.
This is when things turned bizarre, because as our readers writes, just two days later, without warning, on orders of the IRS his bank empties out the bank account handing over its contents to the IRS:
“the IRS emptied our bank account February 3, 2017 for erroneous refund with no notice! (please see attached letter).
Read moreHow The IRS Can Empty Your Bank Account Without Warning
The IRS can now revoke your passport if you owe back taxes
– The IRS can now revoke your passport if you owe back taxes:
The passport provision is now official, as President Obama signed the 5-year infrastructure spending Bill. It adds a new section 7345 to the Internal Revenue Code. It is part of H.R. 22 – Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, the “FAST Act.” Why are passport covered in the tax code, you might ask? The title of the new section is “Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies.” The idea goes back to 2012, when the Government Accountability Office reported on the potential for using the issuance of passports to collect taxes.
It was controversial then, but this time sailed through, slipped into the massive highway funding bill, passed here. The section on passports begins on page 1,113. The joint explanatory statement is here, beginning on page 38. The law says the State Department can revoke, deny or limit passports for anyone the IRS certifies as having a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000. Administrative details are scant. It could mean no new passport and no renewal. It could even mean the State Department will rescind existing passports.
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IRS Warns Against Keeping IRA Funds In Gold At Home
– IRS Warns Against Keeping IRA Funds In Gold At Home:
Commentary on the Wall Street Journal article by Laura SaundersThe Internal Revenue Service isn’t too keen on the recent advertisements suggesting retirement savers store their tax-free individual retirement account funds in gold at their house or in safety-deposit boxes, the Wall Street Journal writes.
Storing Gold at Home: Legal, But with Caveats
The statement from the IRS comes in response to a number of ads online and on the radio, such as one from Hartford Gold Group, suggesting investors can avoid stock market turbulence by investing IRA accounts in gold coins and bullion they can store where they like, including their home, according to the Journal.
Read moreIRS Warns Against Keeping IRA Funds In Gold At Home
IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation
– IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation:
Submitted by Richard Pollock via The Daily Caller,
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” activities to his tax agency’s exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of “public corruption” was made in a July 15 letter by 64 House Republicans to the IRS, FBI and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They charged the foundation is “lawless.”
If the Public Shouldn’t Have Them, Why Does the IRS Need AR-15s?
– If the Public Shouldn’t Have Them, Why Does the IRS Need AR-15s?:
Here we go again. Stuck in the aftermath of a horrific shooting and all politicians think to do is scheme about how to take more rights from the citizenry. There are no good guys here. The Democrats want to railroad over due process by denying firearms to people on Orwellian watch lists, while Republicans plot to give the FBI more warrantless surveillance powers. This is the authoritarian knee-jerk response to tragedy we get from the U.S Congress.
Hypocritically, when it comes to foreign policy, all we hear are incessant calls for more militarism, more war and more regime change. As I warned in yesterday’s post, Is the Syrian War About to Experience a Major Escalation? — 51 State Department officials just issued a cable calling for the bombing of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. An event likely to lead to direct confrontation with Russia.
Read moreIf the Public Shouldn’t Have Them, Why Does the IRS Need AR-15s?
IRS admits to illegally seizing bank accounts; agrees to give the money back
– IRS admits to illegally seizing bank accounts; agrees to give the money back:
It’s the stuff of libertarian dreams. The IRS admits that it wrongfully took money from innocent citizens, and it gives the money back.
This is actually happening to victims of a little-known form of civil asset forfeiture carried out by the IRS on the premise of “structuring” violations. In case you didn’t know, depositing or withdrawing just under $10,000 from your bank account multiple times is viewed as suspicious and possibly criminal activity.
Read moreIRS admits to illegally seizing bank accounts; agrees to give the money back
What The IRS Just Revealed Should Start A Wave Of Outrage
– What The IRS Just Revealed Should Start A Wave Of Outrage:
Just imagine if this had been a Republican presidential administration these past seven years. The media would have been all over it like white on rice. However, for some very apparent reason, the liberal progressive media has dismissed or ignored scandals, faults, issues of deception, lies, abandonment of Americans to die, and tyrannical unconstitutional actions. Now the IRS has finally revealed its nefarious actions to us all – and it’s far worse than we thought.
Read moreWhat The IRS Just Revealed Should Start A Wave Of Outrage
How the IRS Used Civil Asset Forfeiture to Ruin the Lives of Two Connecticut Bakers
– How the IRS Used Civil Asset Forfeiture to Ruin the Lives of Two Connecticut Bakers:
At the beginning of this year, Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to close an exploitable loophole in asset forfeiture laws. State and local law enforcement agencies often sought federal “adoption” of seizures in order to route around statutes that dumped assets into general funds or otherwise limited them from directly profiting from these seizures. By partnering with federal agencies, local law enforcement often saw bigger payouts than with strictly local forfeitures.
The loophole closure still had its own loopholes (seizures for “public safety,” various criminal acts), but it did make a small attempt to straighten out some really perverted incentives. But deep down inside, it appears the DOJ isn’t really behind true forfeiture reform. In fact, it seems to be urging local law enforcement to fight these efforts by pointing out just how much money these agencies will “lose” if they can’t buddy up with Uncle Sam.
– From the post: How the Department of Justice is Actively Trying to Prevent Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
It’s been a while since I’ve reported on the lawless and barbaric practice of civil asset forfeiture. However, just because it hasn’t been a focus doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Indeed, it appears the same federal agencies that couldn’t find a bank executive they didn’t want to coddle, take particular pleasure in harassing and abusing average Americans generally, and small businesspeople in particular.
Read moreHow the IRS Used Civil Asset Forfeiture to Ruin the Lives of Two Connecticut Bakers
Former IRS Agent Admits: “Personal Income Tax is Actually Illegal”
Flashback:
– Aaron Russo’s America: ‘Freedom To Fascism’ (Directors Cut)
– Reflections & Warnings – An Interview With Aaron Russo (Full Video, 02:38:29)
– Former IRS Agent Admits: “Personal Income Tax is Actually Illegal”:
It is tax day again.
Chances are, you’re done with the dirty business this year, or laying low in hopes that you aren’t audited or flat out persecuted. If not, the clock is quickly ticking.
But it is worth pointing out once again the many ways in which the federal tax scheme in the United States is illegal.
Read moreFormer IRS Agent Admits: “Personal Income Tax is Actually Illegal”
Why Is The IRS Spying On Americans’ Phone Calls?
– Why Is The IRS Spying On Americans’ Phone Calls?:
Following the first ever congressional hearing on “Stingray” cellphone surveillance, new details reveal the Secret Service and the Internal Revenue Service are also using the controversial spying devices.
At a congressional hearing last Wednesday, officials with the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security released new details about the federal government’s use of “Stingray” cellphone surveillance. Stingrays, also known as cell site simulators, constitute another example of military tools finding their way into the hands of federal agencies and local police departments across the United States.
IRS Admits Taxpayer Account Hack Far More Serious Than Initially Reported
– IRS Admits Taxpayer Account Hack Far More Serious Than Initially Reported (ZeroHedge, Aug 18, 2015):
Another day, another lie/fib/untruth exposed in government. As WSJ reports, after initially admitting that a major security breach had gained unauthorized access to 100,000 US households tax returns, The IRS has now admitted that in fact more than 600,000 breaches (blamed on Russians) were attempted and an additional 390,000 taxpayers were potentially affected.
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The FBI Considers the IRS and DOJ, Domestic Terrorists
– The FBI Considers the IRS and DOJ, Domestic Terrorists (First Rebuttal, August 11, 2015):
Eventually it was bound to happen. The ever increasing ambiguous laws that allow the government to prosecute, or worse, simply negate all Constitutional protections of its citizens would come back to hang them. In an unusual circumstance, what is essentially one party in D.C. when it comes to matters of covering up governmental criminality, has split into a two party system. Specifically, a sect of the Republican party known as Tea Partiers pushed unrelentingly to expose the criminality acted upon members of its own tribe by various government agencies.
Read moreThe FBI Considers the IRS and DOJ, Domestic Terrorists
Bombshell: CDC Deliberate Destroyed Evidence Linking Vaccines To Autism
– CDC held meeting of vaccine scientists to deliberately destroy evidence linking vaccines to autism (Natural News, July 30, 2015):
For a government that lies about everything — fudging economic numbers, using the IRS as a political weapon and even manufacturing staged domestic terrorism events so the FBI can “catch terrorists” in the act — it’s no surprise to now learn that the CDC deliberately destroyed evidence linking vaccines to autism.
According to a new statement relayed today by Rep. Bill Posey, the CDC held a meeting of scientists to decide which piece of evidence to destroy that might link vaccines to autism in African-American children.
Fearless indy media journalist Sharyl Attkisson first reported on this revelation. Attkisson’s website is one of the thousands of independent media websites now favored on GoodGopher.com (the search engine for truth seekers) and FETCH.news, the internet’s truth-based alternative to Google News.
Rep. Posey’s statement contained this astonishing description of brazen CDC science fraud related by CDC scientists Dr. William Thompson: (bolding emphasis added)
Read moreBombshell: CDC Deliberate Destroyed Evidence Linking Vaccines To Autism
IRS Deleted Backups Of 24,000 Lois Lerner Emails Months After Subpoena
– IRS Deleted Backups Of 24,000 Lois Lerner Emails Months After Subpoena (ZeroHedge, June 25, 2015):
According to the IG’s deputy Timothy Camus, two “lower-graded” employees at the IRS center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, erased 422 computer backup tapes that contained as many as 24,000 emails to and from former IRS official Lois Lerner. It gets better: the tapes were erased in March 2014, months after congressional investigators requested all of Lerner’s emails, and months after Zero Hedge, among many others, said to simply track down the server back ups. And the punchline: according to George, the workers might be incompetent, a lead investigator said Thursday, but there is no evidence they were part of a criminal conspiracy to destroy evidence.
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