TaxProf Calls An End To Day By Day IRS Scandal Coverage
It seems that the IRS Scandal even more than usual is something that is viewed through ideological glasses. If you would really like to take a hard look at the core scandal, I would recommend the Senate Finance Committee report. The report is in three parts. It lays out the agreed facts that have been determined from fairly exhaustive investigations and then two narratives, one Republican and one Democrat that can be drawn from those facts. The notion that the Obama administration was directing the IRS to target conservative groups is now something of an article of faith on the right. The Republican narrative relies on a kind of a tone at the top dog whistle to support that belief.
Getting Out Of The Blue Calls From IRS? Just Hang Up
On a special day that happens to be just a couple of weeks before the end of tax season, we would get on the speakerphone and each of us would call a family member of one of the others pretending to be an IRS agent with questions about that persons return. Having the return in front of us strengthened the credibility. It was particularly satisfying to pull the prank on my brother who often used his ATT job to pull jokes on the family. He one time convinced my mother to put a paper bag over the phone while they blew the dust out the lines. Ah, the good old days.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.