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They thought that she was too poor to be telling the truth about her income.
This is absurd. Via Raven’s Eye, Danny Westneat at the Seattle Times has uncovered a case in which the IRS audited a single mother with two kids, who earns $10 an hour at Supercuts and lives with her parents. What was their reason for doing so? Random selection? An incorrectly completed return? No, they just thought that she was too poor to be telling the truth:
“I asked the IRS lady straight upfront — ‘I don’t have anything, why are you auditing me?’ ” Porcaro recalled. “I said, ‘Why me, when I don’t own a home, a business, a car?’ ”
The answer stunned both Porcaro and the private tax specialist her dad had gotten to help her.
“They showed us a spreadsheet of incomes in the Seattle area,” says Dante Driver, an accountant at Seattle’s G.A. Michael and Co. “The auditor said, ‘You made eighteen thousand, and our data show a family of three needs at least thirty-six thousand to get by in Seattle.”
Seriously? An estimated 60,000 people in Seattle live below the poverty line — meaning they make $11,000 or less for an individual or $22,000 for a family of four. Does the IRS red-flag them for scrutiny, simply because they’re poor?
As much as the rich are crying "class warfare" they don't seem to realize that it does exist, and the victims are the poor.
As much as the rich are crying "class warfare" they don't seem to realize that it does exist, and the victims are the poor.
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
If it's money they are looking for, why are they auditing the one's who don't have any?
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
If it's money they are looking for, why are they auditing the one's who don't have any?
Perhaps you should read for comprehension? They audit her because her life style exceeds the amount of income she claims. .
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
If it's money they are looking for, why are they auditing the one's who don't have any?
Perhaps you should read for comprehension? They audit her because her life style exceeds the amount of income she claims. THAT is the criteria for the IRS to audit people.
It is not class warfare. The deeper in debt this country goes the more events like this will occur.
If it's money they are looking for, why are they auditing the one's who don't have any?
Perhaps you should read for comprehension? They audit her because her life style exceeds the amount of income she claims. THAT is the criteria for the IRS to audit people.
If it's money they are looking for, why are they auditing the one's who don't have any?
Perhaps you should read for comprehension? They audit her because her life style exceeds the amount of income she claims. THAT is the criteria for the IRS to audit people.
She pays $400 a month rent to her parents......because of that she is being punished....the kids, now apparently don't belong to anybody as she's not allowed to claim them and her parents don't claim them as dependents......Perhaps you should try reading comprehension....They went after her because she was POOR. They've taken money away from those who can least afford it.
You're more likely to be audited if you make less than 25k a year than if you make over 100k.
Of course, the people who are making over 100k can afford to fight the IRS.
Just sickening.You're more likely to be audited if you make less than 25k a year than if you make over 100k.
Of course, the people who are making over 100k can afford to fight the IRS.
That wasn't always the case. Before this decade, the wealthy were far more likely to be audited. However, they aren't anymore because the Republicans cut funding for audits while they controlled Congress and rewrote tax laws to make them more friendly to upper-class tax cheats.
Of course, the people who are making over 100k can afford to fight the IRS.
That wasn't always the case. Before this decade, the wealthy were far more likely to be audited. However, they aren't anymore because the Republicans cut funding for audits while they controlled Congress and rewrote tax laws to make them more friendly to upper-class tax cheats.
Just sickening.
That wasn't always the case. Before this decade, the wealthy were far more likely to be audited. However, they aren't anymore because the Republicans cut funding for audits while they controlled Congress and rewrote tax laws to make them more friendly to upper-class tax cheats.
Just sickening.
