Friday, March 29, 2024

IRS Acquires New Tool To Aid Agency’s Fishing Expeditions

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The can now access anyone's bank records without first notifying them.

In a 9-0 ruling issued last month, the set a new precedent on the need to notify any individual about the IRS accessing their bank records.

In the opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court notes the following:

has given the IRS considerable power to go after unpaid . One tool at the Service's disposal is the authority to summon people with information concerning a
delinquent taxpayer. But to safeguard privacy, the IRS is generally required to provide notice to anyone named in a summons, who can then sue to quash it. Today's case concerns an exception to that general rule.

…The statute sets forth three conditions to exempt the IRS from providing notice in circumstances like these. First, a summons must be “issued in aid of . . . collection.”
§7609(c)(2)(D). Second, it must aid the collection of “an assessment made or judgment rendered.” §7609(c)(2)(D)(i). By “assessment,” the Code “refers to the official recording
of a taxpayer's liability.” Direct Marketing Assn. v. Brohl, 575 U. S. 1, 9 (2015); see also Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U. S. 88, 100 (2004). Section 7609(c)(2)(D)(i) does not excuse notice, therefore, until the IRS makes an official assessment or a judgment has been rendered with respect to a taxpayer's liability.

Third, a summons must aid the collection of assessments or judgments “against the person with respect to whose liability the summons is issued.” §7609(c)(2)(D)(i).
This requirement links the subject of the assessment or judgment with the subject of the collection effort—they must concern the same delinquent taxpayer.”

This means that under this new precedent, the IRS can seize anyone's bank records as long as they are presumed to be financially tied to any individual under investigation by the agency.

Former Georgia congressman and current Chairman of told American Liberty News that “the Court has removed even a pretense of privacy protection against snooping when it comes to Uncle Sam's insatiable appetite for money.”

President also shared a similar sentiment, noting that “the IRS needs to be reformed, not expanded. The $20 billion cut from IRS spending is a good start in telling the IRS that its culture and behavior have to change. The invasions of privacy have to stop.”

The U.S. House passed a debt limit package yesterday that would roll back funding to the IRS. Per CNBC, the package would cut $21.4 billion from the most recent $80 billion in funds allocated to the agency.

The bill now heads to a final vote in the Democrat-controlled .

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Victoria Snitsar Churchill
Victoria Snitsar Churchill
Victoria Snitsar Churchill is a proud immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen with a decade of experience in grassroots politics and community organizing. Her writing has been featured in many online publications, including Campus Reform, The Daily Torch and The Daily Signal. As an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, Victoria appeared in media outlets such as CBS News, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Blaze and NRATV. Victoria is also a former NCAA D1 student-athlete and Kansas College Republicans State Chair. After moving eleven times in six years, Victoria resides in Arlington, Virginia and enjoys overpriced brunch on Sundays with her husband.

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  1. JOHN ROBERTS IS COMPROMISED AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED. THE FACT SCOTUS JUST THREW EVERY AMERICAN TO THE WOLVES. SCOTHUS, DOJ, BIDEN ADMISTRATION UNDER THE CCP HAS NOW LITERALLY STRIPPED AMERICANS OF THEIR PRIVACY AND HAS NOW INSURED AMERICANS WILL BE ATTACKED AND JAILED FOR THE SMALLEST OF INFRATIONS WHILE ELITIST WILL BE EXNORATED OR, NEVER INVETIGATED. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE ON THE PART OF THE SCOTUS!!!

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