So I got a large payment notice from the IRS yesterday...

[brooklynite]

...apparently based on non-payment of estimate taxes. I called them up, got in touch with an agent in five minutes, and resolved the issue quickly (payments had been made but not credited to our tax filing). This helpful person is prospectively someone whom the "87,000 new IRS agents" funding would replace when she retired.

[Initech]

1. The "87,000 IRS agents" thing is some Fox News bullshit.

And the people who are mad about that are probably committing some serious financial crimes, so they should be afraid of the IRS.

[republianmushroom]

2. not if the house republicans have their way.

[central scrutinizer]

3. According to foxnews

87,000 agents in armored vans will arrive tomorrow and sell your children.

[rubbersole]

4. With laptops from Wuhan...

..spreading the Fauci created virus via chemtrails that started the war on Christmas after Bengazi where the long form birth certificate was created eating pizza covered in baby's blood.

[panader0]

9. LOL!

[SlimJimmy]

5. I received a letter from the IRS many years ago that said I had underpaid

my business tax by $10.00. I never wrote a check more quickly.

[Native]

6. 5 minutes? That's amazing.

[WarGamer]

7. I'm all for a beefed up IRS.

As long as they have guard rails about WHAT they do with their time.

Right now, statistics show most audits are of low wage earners.

In fact, those earning 25k are audited at 5x the rate as everyone else.

I get it... the grandmother that sells homemade candles at the farmers market is probably taking $300 a year out of the mouth of the Federal Tax System...

How about auditing ever damn wealthy person who uses shell co's to write off a huge chunk of expenditures??

I'll support 187,000 new agents if they're not picking on low income Americans.

[mitch96]

8. Years ago I tried to get in touch with the irs with a problem. Took FOREVER to get in touch

with the office. When I did I did not understand what the hell she was saying..
IRS legal-ese I guess. Like talking to a doctor that only used medical terminology or a lawyer speaking legalese. Did not get any satisfaction and had to talk to a tax accountant.. $$$$$
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[Igel]

10. I've never worked for an organization in which retirees weren't typically replaced.

You retire, you're not drawing pay, they hire somebody else. Unless there's an intentional budget reduction and they're curtailing that dept.'s budget.

I've been hired as a replacement; I've left and been replaced. At no point was there a bit deal about how they needed to increase the budget to maintain the status quo.

Meanwhile, I await my tax refund for my return e-filed last April. Or a nasty IRS letter demanding something or other for non-filing of taxes. (It's not like they had a large RIF or suddenly barrage of tax returns. No. Last year the agency simply pulled a SW Airlines. And haven't been able to catch up. But I'm sure that while productivity plummeted, payroll didn't.)

[brooklynite]

11. You retire, you're drawing a pension AND they need to pay someone to replace you...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. I have an uncashed check from the IRS for $0.01, decades old, for an error I made.

You will soon be visited by 87,000 IRS stormtroopers in Abrams tanks.