GOP Congressmn introduces "The Dog Ate My Taxes" bill to legalize dumb excuses to IRS

[Little-Acorn]

The IRS has been announcinng that one employee under suspicion after another has had hard-disk crashes, that has deleted emails from the critical period under Congressioal investigation. Many people have pointed out that if you ever get audited by the IRS and they demand all your receipts and records, the "computer crash" excuse would be found unacceptable by that same IRS that's using it now to Congress.

A Texas congressman now proposes to redress that inequity. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has introduced the "Dog Ate My Taxes" bill, making it legal for cittizens to offfer comploetely lame excuses to the IRS when he doesn't want to give them the information they are demanding.

It may be tongue-in-cheek, but it's HIGHLY appropriate.

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Stockman bill allows taxpayers to use same lame excuses as IRS | Congressman Steve Stockman

Stockman bill allows taxpayers to use same lame excuses as IRS

Jun 20, 2014

WASHINGTON -- Taxpayers who do not produce documents for the Internal Revenue Service will be able to offer a variety of dubious excuses under legislation introduced by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX 36) a week after the IRS offered an incredibly dubious excuse for its failure to turn documents over to House investigators.

“The United States was founded on the belief government is subservient and accountable to the people. Taxpayers shouldn’t be expected to follow laws the Obama administration refuses to follow themselves,” said Stockman. “Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously made-up excuses the Obama administration uses.”

Under Stockman’s bill, “The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act,” taxpayers who do not provide documents requested by the IRS can claim one of the following reasons:

1. The dog ate my tax receipts
2. Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3. Traded documents for five terrorists
4. Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5. Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room
6. Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s car
7. Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords
8. Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar
9. Was short on toilet paper while camping
10. At this point, what difference does it make?

Stockman’s bill comes a week after the IRS refused to turn over to House investigators emails from former Exempt Organizations Divison director Lois Lerner that would implicate agency personnel in illegal targeting of citizens critical of President Barack Obama.

The IRS claimed a “computer glitch” has erased the hard drives of all incriminating evidence. The IRS further claimed the hard drives are not available for forensic investigation as they had just been destroyed for recycling.

 

[JoeB131]

There's be a great spot for this guy on the comedy circuit.

Too bad he's in congress.

 

[1776]

A company that gets an IRS audit can now say, "Well we accidently stored all that info on a computer that accidently got recycled."

 

[Little-Acorn]

A company that gets an IRS audit can now say, "Well we accidently stored all that info on a computer that accidently got recycled."

That's the idea.

As soon as this bill is passed by the House and Senate and signed by Obama.

Should go through any day now.

 

[R.D.]

We should throw in there that George W. Bush destroyed my tax receipts when he orchestrated the 9/11 attack, Global Warming made them spontaneously combust, Global Cooling made them freeze and crack into a million icicles, and the Tea Party attacked them because racism!

 

[Little-Acorn]

We should throw in there that George W. Bush destroyed my tax receipts when he orchestrated the 9/11 attack, Global Warming made them spontaneously combust, Global Cooling made them freeze and crack into a million icicles, and the Tea Party attacked them because racism!

That will be in the House-Senate Conpromise Committee version.

 

[1776]

The IRS under Obama is like a crackhead, unemployed drunk parent telling their kid drinking soda is bad for their health.