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IRS IMPLEMENTS RULES CONGRESS WRITES REVIEWING PAPERS PEOPLE SEND (c) Carrie Devorah :
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IRS IMPLEMENTS RULES CONGRESS WRITES REVIEWING PAPERS PEOPLE SEND (c) Carrie Devorah :
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The IRS people are doing jobs guided by the rules Congress writes.
It, it all, starts with Congress, ground zero for how the company called America is run. And it starts with filers.
If I had to select a descriptive word to describe the average IRS person I have engaged with, the word I would pick is 'vanilla.' Every so often, admittedly, there is that 'one' rotten bean. But the average person is doing their job, dreading community events where they risk being asked, 'so.... what do you do.' Along the lines of a 'proctologist' or 'horse dong teaser', IRS employees these days are not quick to state where they work. Do you blame them, considering headlines that value gangsta rappers shooting up or getting shot or Kim K pornography reclassified, by celebrity, as Instagram not sex trafficking, of a sort online. Hear me out, how different is it when, breaking it down, it is a transaction with a buy and a sell, a promise and conveyance- brand, body or otherwise.
In the same way, starlets and songstresses like Gaga and Rhianna put nudity online and on stage, so do IRS non-profit applicants except, the IRS non-profit applicants are supposed to bare their raw facts or else bear the brunt of the IRS repercussions, let me remind you, that Congress wrote.
The IRS just implements.
The IRS has in its hands the papers that filers filled out, in the case of non-profits, the papers that define the mission of the non profit. If that non profit mission changes, ie. Planned Parenthood expanding its mission from reproduction to selling of fetal tissue, the onus is on that non-profit to advise the IRS of the change towards the end goal of reapproval. If, ie. PP, does not secure approval from the IRS, then the non-profit is potentially deceiving donors.
The details are in the papers... Congress' and the applicants. One would need to see the original non profit papers to make a proper determination of a non profit worthiness. That said, there are bad apples in every corporate entity, community, home and relationship. Those bad apples should not tarnish the others doing their jobs.
One of the persons who alleged being a target told me, face to face, 'well, the IRS said nothing for ten years.' I clarified to her, as I do here, the IRS acts upon tips, further stating that most likely, the IRS would have gone on ten more years without investigation her, even fifty more years, except that someone put her group on the IRS radar.
The repeated investigations may have been the fault of rules Congress wrote, too.
The rules that Congress wrote require that once the IRS determines to close/terminate a complaint against an individual, company or non-profit, that investigation file cannot be re-opened. This means when new information is sent to the IRS on that individual, company or non-profit the IRS does not advise the Notifier that a new file must be opened or that the new information is, well, I guess, thrown out? The IRS does not clarify other than to state that file is closed, sealed, shuttered, buried.
The letter the IRS sends out has been approved, by Congress, to state 'this matter is closed.' The letter does not advise complainants that the IRS must open a completely new file, rather than adding to the first file.
It is easy enough to conjecture that the 'targeted' individual, company or non-profit do have someone watching them. Someone outside of the IRS is reporting them over and over and over again.
Two solutions- do an internal review from Day 1 of paper filing through present date confirming that all docs are in order to standards Congress continues to add to rather than remove from.
Common sense is that Congress should write a rule allowing the IRS to put that closed file in to a limbo state allowing new information to be added to.
That said, common sense is not a Congressional attribute. Few staffers do historical research data dives with an eye on easing rules that burden the people and the IRS employees. In the way that Congress has its Markups, Congress should have Paredown sessions devoted to rule cutting considerations.
An FYI, heads up where Congress created yet another problem that Congress is not correcting nor adressing, is the proliferation of (dot).org's on the Internet that are not actual non-profits just using the TLD, the Top Level Domain, the ending.
20 years ago, President Bill Clinton authorized the IANA be under a newly hatched entity that used government tax paper paid for technology. The rules were clear...
.org (dot)(org) was restricted TLD's for non-profits. Greed got in the way of oversight. The .org (dot)(org)TLD is being 'rented' (no you don't own them) to people who (1) bought them to block use of their trademarks/brands and (2) bought them mislead people in to assuming this .org (dot)(org)was legitimate.
The fact is, anyone can report a suspect non profit to the IRS who will compare that non profit's paperwork to the laws Congress wrote that rule how the IRS does it work. It is the modern day adage of "see something, say something" as is what most likely happened with the conservative non profits at root of this issue.
Either (a) write a column on the games people play against people who get played, or (b) report someone, understanding that reporting people doesn't stop their bad behaviours. Most often, the bad people will continue doing their bad behaviours, elsewhere and more cautiously....
It, it all, starts with Congress, ground zero for how the company called America is run. And it starts with filers.
If I had to select a descriptive word to describe the average IRS person I have engaged with, the word I would pick is 'vanilla.' Every so often, admittedly, there is that 'one' rotten bean. But the average person is doing their job, dreading community events where they risk being asked, 'so.... what do you do.' Along the lines of a 'proctologist' or 'horse dong teaser', IRS employees these days are not quick to state where they work. Do you blame them, considering headlines that value gangsta rappers shooting up or getting shot or Kim K pornography reclassified, by celebrity, as Instagram not sex trafficking, of a sort online. Hear me out, how different is it when, breaking it down, it is a transaction with a buy and a sell, a promise and conveyance- brand, body or otherwise.
In the same way, starlets and songstresses like Gaga and Rhianna put nudity online and on stage, so do IRS non-profit applicants except, the IRS non-profit applicants are supposed to bare their raw facts or else bear the brunt of the IRS repercussions, let me remind you, that Congress wrote.
The IRS just implements.
The IRS has in its hands the papers that filers filled out, in the case of non-profits, the papers that define the mission of the non profit. If that non profit mission changes, ie. Planned Parenthood expanding its mission from reproduction to selling of fetal tissue, the onus is on that non-profit to advise the IRS of the change towards the end goal of reapproval. If, ie. PP, does not secure approval from the IRS, then the non-profit is potentially deceiving donors.
The details are in the papers... Congress' and the applicants. One would need to see the original non profit papers to make a proper determination of a non profit worthiness. That said, there are bad apples in every corporate entity, community, home and relationship. Those bad apples should not tarnish the others doing their jobs.
One of the persons who alleged being a target told me, face to face, 'well, the IRS said nothing for ten years.' I clarified to her, as I do here, the IRS acts upon tips, further stating that most likely, the IRS would have gone on ten more years without investigation her, even fifty more years, except that someone put her group on the IRS radar.
The repeated investigations may have been the fault of rules Congress wrote, too.
The rules that Congress wrote require that once the IRS determines to close/terminate a complaint against an individual, company or non-profit, that investigation file cannot be re-opened. This means when new information is sent to the IRS on that individual, company or non-profit the IRS does not advise the Notifier that a new file must be opened or that the new information is, well, I guess, thrown out? The IRS does not clarify other than to state that file is closed, sealed, shuttered, buried.
The letter the IRS sends out has been approved, by Congress, to state 'this matter is closed.' The letter does not advise complainants that the IRS must open a completely new file, rather than adding to the first file.
It is easy enough to conjecture that the 'targeted' individual, company or non-profit do have someone watching them. Someone outside of the IRS is reporting them over and over and over again.
Two solutions- do an internal review from Day 1 of paper filing through present date confirming that all docs are in order to standards Congress continues to add to rather than remove from.
Common sense is that Congress should write a rule allowing the IRS to put that closed file in to a limbo state allowing new information to be added to.
That said, common sense is not a Congressional attribute. Few staffers do historical research data dives with an eye on easing rules that burden the people and the IRS employees. In the way that Congress has its Markups, Congress should have Paredown sessions devoted to rule cutting considerations.
An FYI, heads up where Congress created yet another problem that Congress is not correcting nor adressing, is the proliferation of (dot).org's on the Internet that are not actual non-profits just using the TLD, the Top Level Domain, the ending.
20 years ago, President Bill Clinton authorized the IANA be under a newly hatched entity that used government tax paper paid for technology. The rules were clear...
.org (dot)(org) was restricted TLD's for non-profits. Greed got in the way of oversight. The .org (dot)(org)TLD is being 'rented' (no you don't own them) to people who (1) bought them to block use of their trademarks/brands and (2) bought them mislead people in to assuming this .org (dot)(org)was legitimate.
The fact is, anyone can report a suspect non profit to the IRS who will compare that non profit's paperwork to the laws Congress wrote that rule how the IRS does it work. It is the modern day adage of "see something, say something" as is what most likely happened with the conservative non profits at root of this issue.
Either (a) write a column on the games people play against people who get played, or (b) report someone, understanding that reporting people doesn't stop their bad behaviours. Most often, the bad people will continue doing their bad behaviours, elsewhere and more cautiously....