Lawyer Subject To Injunction Defends Timeshare Charitable Deduction Appraisals
Now I enjoy being invited to spend three days at a really nice resort for short money. Unlike most normal people I enjoy the required sales presentation. I feel like I am inside Glengarry Glen Ross talking to somebody who just heard Alec Baldwin’s “Always be closing” speech (I’m not giving you a link, because, you know, language. You can find it.) And I sit and listen to somebody who works for a prestigious brand try to sell me something that is worth maybe $4,000 on the secondary market, if that, for $30,000.
IRS Private Collection Program Is Fundamentally Flawed
Unlike the last time this was tried, the scammers who have rushed into the vacuum created by the erosion of the IRS collection division have created an environment in which it is assumed by many, quite rightly, that a phone call about a purported tax liability is not legitimate. This will probably hamper the collection agencies in being taken seriously. Somebody with the sophistication to conclude that the company is legitimate might also calculate that there is really no percentage in dealing with them. The best deal they can approve is a full pay five-year installment plan and they can’t do any of the nasty things that actual IRS employees can do.
I’m thinking that if I was John Koskinen, that I would send out a mailing to everybody about to be turned over to private collection offering them a 20% discount if they pay in full within 45 days. There’s probably a hundred technical reasons why they wouldn’t work, but it would bring in the low hanging fruit and make the private collectors have to work for their money.
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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.