Are you concerned that the IRS has too much power?
Are you concerned that the IRS has too much power?
No. I am definitely not concerned. I am alarmed.
The IRS has the power to direct its employees to intentionally violate the law. In the worse case, if the tax payer pushes back, the IRS may have to return money wrongfully confiscated, but the employees that engaged KNOWINGLY in corrupt behavior, are immune from civil liability.
In essence, your due process rights are circumvented.
- 26 U.S. Code § 7433 is the statute a taxpayer uses to sue the government when taxes are confiscated wrongfully. This statute requires that you give up the right to sue corrupt IRS agents personally in order to sue the government to get your money back.
As a result, if IRS management says, “get this taxpayer’s assets”, staff are free to act unlawfully to pursue the taxpayer. And they do. IRS employees are only liable to criminal litigation only. This would require the DOJ. If IRS management authorized it, the DOJ will not prosecute it.
Soon, every taxpayer will experience it.
