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IRS has collected more than $520M in back taxes from delinquent millionaires so far
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I hadn't heard this, but I'm very disillusioned, discouraged and angry right now.
I'm 40, a teacher, single income (widowed) with two children. I don't make six figures. But guess who got the IRS on their ass for the first time ever this year?
Apparently I guessed a line wrong on my 1040 last year in Tax Game. Or Turbo Tax did, because I just feed it all the digital documents I get. IRS let me know I get to redo that form (back to start!) and will probably have to pay back $50 of my refund. GOTTEM!
Just send me a fucking bill. For 8 billion per year, and you already know what I should pay, just send me a god damned bill. Fuck this.
They are piloting the "just send a bill" program this year in 12 states thanks to the IRA Biden passed. It's called Direct file.
If you live in one of those 12 states and just do the 1040ez, you may literally be able to just have them send you the goddamn bill.
Damn I don’t qualify. I hope it goes well in those states and expands.
Editing for formatting.
And that's why I like the German system. A part of your your income(income tax) directly goes to our version of the IRS. At the end of the year you can do a tax computation and maybe get taxes back if you payed to much, but you aren't required to do that.
Yes, it's the same in the US but sometimes people don't set it up right so the correct amount is not withheld from their income and they have to pay back the difference at the end of the year. For the majority of people, they get money back from the government. There are lots of sales every year around tax filing time because so many people get a sudden amount of money back from the government.
Being a little hyperbolic, aren't we? You didn't get the IRS "on your ass," your form failed an automated check.
It "failed an automatic check" because it knows I got a number wrong. If it knows what the form is supposed to be, why do I have to refill the form? Or fill the form to begin with?
No amount of hyperbole can make that reality any more ridiculous.