IRS notified me of identity theft
Apparently some moocher filed taxes with my SSN and was expecting a refund. Surprise, surprise. I owed money, so the feds suspected something was up. Of course, when they confirmed that my identity had been stolen, they would not provide any information to help me track down the thief. The investigation will take up to 6 months. Fortunately none of my other accounts had been hacked ... yet.
Apparently my agent hadn't gotten the word discussed in the link above.
This is precisely why we need to abolish the IRS.
Apparently my agent hadn't gotten the word discussed in the link above.
This is precisely why we need to abolish the IRS.
Which is one reason Congress doesn't ever want to call one.
Answer: Zero.
Like any other form of overhead it' gets added to the cost of doing business and passed on to the next level of buyer. All the way down to the end consumer who is the only taxpayer. the column heading is COG for Cost of Government. except maybe in the USA where play pretend is acceptable.
COG follows all business related overhead and precedes adjusted profit or loss
Two other points for consideration:
1. Higher prices lead to lower consumption. This is standard supply/demand 101. The sheer necessity of the business to raise its prices at the necessity of paying taxes prices some customers out of its market niche. Therefore the business suffers a decline accordingly.
2. Consumers also lose out, both when they are effectively priced out of a market and because the higher costs of one product introduce additional opportunity costs.
I object to corporate taxes for ALL of the above reasons.
At the end of the day it's all overhead minus all sales receipts equals profit or loss.The cost of collecting the tax for the government and passing it to the treasury takes an administrative unit of employees ergo sum cost of government.
In Australia they use the COG column to define the total cost of doing business. Here we use fairy tales claiming businesses pay taxes instead of facing the fact that businesses are an arm of the Treasury Department - paid or not.
Yes! No more bean counting. No more IRS!
Sorry about your troubles. The IRS is a threat to individual rights and security. I know too many people who have been ruined by them and this preposterous system.
Regards,
O.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sH...
enough to flee, which sadly, seems to be the
route most preferred for some of us lately. And
what does that say about us?? Battle-weary?
Fighting spirit all gone??? Not good!!
The alternative is the end user consumption tax which puts each wage earner in charge of their spending or for their savings. I MIGHT go along with a Right To Life provision for certain items needed to simply exist and in a certain dollar amount or limit which would include all welfare as income. Food, Shelter, Clothing, Medicine, Air and water (for those in Detroit) After that what to purchase, for how much, and when is the citizens decision the price of which governs the amount of end user tax AS LONG AS it completely replaced the other taxes.None of this we'll keep that in reserve for emergencies crap. If the government doesn't have enough then let them downsize or better yet use the recall to force a downsize and a return to their real job as employees not masters. That is citizens controlling government by their vote and by their purchases. Dump the draft completely for a third way to vote join up or not join up. has to start somewhere But the Right To Life Exemption from end user consumption tax (like the sales tax free days in Florida. has some merit.
Next question. Does it ban income tax at all levels? If not then that level gets no income from the End User Tax better yet a complete ban. rather than leave a 50 head medusa.
Then as I've done explain the replacement as a freedom of choice measure. the opposite of a fascist no choice system. Government over citizens or citizens over government. There are only two choices and there should be only one. If Government over citizens is retained there should be only none.
haughty, arrogant we'll-get-you-for-that mister nasty
since we first saw him, and a letter from him would
only be good for recycle, I'd say. . LifeLock has a
good team, but I don't know if they can be called in
"after-the-fact." . maybe they can. . they have
helped my wife and me. -- j
.
104 thousand hacks were the result of the associated
personal information (ssn, etc.) already being out
there, and someone exploiting the knowledge of
the identities to try to get money out of the IRS.
LifeLock may be able to solve this. . I Hope So!!! -- j
.
You may be able to find out some information by using an identity theft protection service to lock everything down and get everything secured so you do not have larger problems.
Her is a list of a few of them.
http://www.consumersadvocate.org/id-thef...
I have already done much of that.
The SSN itself is not self-validating as were the credit card numbers in the 1980s (as every C/C now uses the same formula for a single check digit).
One can create a fictitious SSN by somewhat randomly selecting a nine digit sequence. Generally there is no verification by the IRS of the address provided with the return to determine if there is a difference from the IRS files -- because people do not use the mechanism originally established by the IRS requiring all filers to file a change of address form indicating old and new addresses.
The IRS no longer has the personnel to even process the change of address forms.
Example: Someone in Africa happened to duplicate one of my C/C numbers and used it to make a purchase in the US under some name with an African address. The vendor never asked for the verification info on the card, such as name, CSV code, or expiration date. The C/C company promptly removed the charge from my account and withdrew the funds from the vendor, who was then out of luck! My discussion with the vendor confirmed all of the above.
2) How did they get your previous years 1040 filing?
They did not get that info from the IRS, they simply used what they got elsewhere and used it.
But damn, doesn't it irk the hell out of you. Does SSA issue you a new SSN once its been determined stolen?
Regarding the applicability of the IRS's response to Ayotte's inquiry to my case, at least what you suggested would have been some assurance of normalcy.
Yes, it does irk the hell out of me. I wasted three hours last night.
I guess I didn't renounce my citizenship fast enough.