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IRS Abuse Report #592Date: Tue Aug 1 17:15:13 2000
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From: ew
I don't make a lot of money. Someone at the IRS thinks I do? Back in 1985 I had a small business driving a taxi in NYC. In 1990 I was contacted by the IRS and said, I was being checked for that year and found that I owed $8,000 dollars. I had written and called many times and always been told there looking into it and would get the standard letter of 45 to60days they would notify me on there decision, well it never happen, this ended up going on for years every year during which time they took my refund and also took $100 dollars per month to pay for the penalty and interest. I almost lost my home. I now have a new accountant who cleared the matter Up, but the IRS said that too many years have gone by to get any money back. Even when it was proven that I never owed the money in the first place. This has caused me great financial hardship.
IRS Abuse Report #593Date: Fri Aug 22 0:26:42 2000
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From: DK
I am a 32 year old mother of 3 young children. It all started with an audit back in 1991, they went back to 1988. I was threatened into taking a plea or they would put me in prison. My audit took 3 three years, mind you my accountant went to prison and I was 22 years old, I had no idea this accountant was a cheat. In 1994 I had a 1 year old and a 2 year old, the thought of prison terrified me, my children needed their mom. The out come was still terrible, I owed $26,000 due to a accountant who thought he did me a favor. I took a guilty plea and received a felony, 5 years probation, 6 months home jail, and to top it all off I now owed $144,000 after penalties and interest .How do you start over after that. For the sake of my children I found the strength. In 1994 I worked very hard to get rid of the debt. The IRS took a compromise and offer and they were paid in full! Try getting a job with a felony, what a joke. In 1998 they let me off Federal Probation 1 year early for good behavior, but at my dismay I found out they never stopped investigating me. They had me take that plea on purpose so that when they came after me this time I would already have a record. The IRS went to grand jury to indict me for taxes, they lost. After they lost they pulled me in their office and told me in front of my attorney to go back to my accountant and find the $80,000 dollars missing. There was not 1 cent missing. That was blackmail. They said if I didn't take there plea they would charge me with money laundering. That's not true, I didn't commit any crime I was just a target and always will be. Again they go back to indict me again, then another plea offer charging me on someone else's merchant account. How do they get away with this extortion and abuse. I have spent 10 years fighting with the IRS and defending myself from lies. I would have really liked to have spent those years enjoying my 3 children. The Government took that from me.(just another thing they took) Why does the government allow them to have this power and to be above the law. Let's go after the special agents and others that are corrupt. I will not stop now, I will fight this time till the day I die. They must be stoppedIRS Abuse Report #594
Date: Fri Oct 6 0:26:42 2000
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From the late 80s to the early 90s I had a knock down drag out battle with the IRS over taxes I never owed. The original hassle started over a failed business and escalated to monstrous proportions. I was hassled , threatened, garnished, robbed from, and abused for years. Even several people from the IRS said my case was a mess. Papers were lost, information confused, numbers and dollars mishandled and misapplied, and abuse repeated by new agents on the case starting all over again several times. My case was duplicated within the IRS as were the amounts claimed owed many times over. I finally had my tax lawyer offer a compromise even though I didn't owe them. It was cheaper then standing up for my “rights' (?) and I wanted it to end. Even that took forever and I was humiliated by the process. Privacy? I had none. Rights? I had none. The IRS did what ever it pleased and I suffered from each of their many mistakes. My health and my personal life was damaged as a result. I lost everything and had to start over. It is an experience I shall never forget. I now take few deductions even though I am entitled to, and over pay because I don't ever want to be “noticed' again. The system is BADLY broken and even though I have always strived to be honest and do everything right, I suffered the full brunt of this terrible incompetence called the IRS. It's not the people I hate, it's the system. IRS employees are the losers of the earth and can't help it. I am 100% for a sales based system. I am NOT a radical nor camouflage wearing nut case, but after this terrible experience I have been eyeing remote property in Montana......IRS Abuse Report #595
Date: Wed Oct 11 22:11:41 2000
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From: Fernando
I was advised by IRS that I owed $26,000, so I wanted to get into a payment plan, I could only afford to pay $130. a month and that was set up by the IRS after reviewing my financial statement. A month later I received a letter which stated that my monthly payment to IRS was raised to $480 a month. I called them to advice them that I could not afford this payment, that my salary was reduced due to employer related problems and that my wife no longer had a job. I asked if I could make payments of $150 until things get better. They told me NO that they were going to levy my checking account and take the money straight from my pay check. I GOT NEWS FOR YOU IRS, I'M MOVING TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH MY FAMILY,I'M SELLING EVERYTHING I OWN, I PLEDGE TO YOU THAT I WILL NEVER PAY ANYMORE INCOMETAX, I'M BURNING MY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MY DRIVERS LICENCE. I WILL LIVE OFF THE LAND, I WILL NOT WORK AGAIN, I WILL NOT DRIVE, I WILL BE A HAPPY MAN !!!!!!!!!IRS Abuse Report #596
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:59:34 -0400
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Hello,
The IRS has ignored the injured spouse claim that we have filed each year for the past year on behalf of my wife. They have STOLEN her tax return to satisfy a debt that I incurred some 17 yrs. prior to us being married.... This particular debt was claimed in a bankruptcy that we filed over 10 yrs ago.... and was discharged, but still the IRS STEALS her tax return...IRS Abuse Report #597
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:55:18 -0600
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In 1996, Best Buy and Circuit City moved into my town with service facilities. I didn't foresee the loss of all my technicians to a large company which publicly acknowledges they don't make any money on service. No problem, that's America and the market place. I lost my service business even though I had thousands of customers. Toward the end of my companies life, an employee, embezzled $35,000 through the payroll account (we will skip the circumstances but the event was very well documented). K C, my IRS agent, told me that even though their were charges and lawsuits etc. that I would still have to pay the withholding on the stolen money.
KC has very enthusiastically pursued me through the years. I gave power of attorney to my lawyer and he had said that KC would not contact me personally. After I had lost everything, I returned to some old friends to beg for a job in electronics at a local retailer. After lunch the sales manager and I walked through the parking lot, I was thinking that I had the job. At that point, IRS agent KC jumped out of the bushes (in front of several members of the Brandsmart staff) and started screaming about me not paying my taxes. KC and I had a heated exchange while he had put papers on my windshield. There are many witnesses to this entire episode and needless to say, the retailer, terrified of the IRS did not give me the job.
Since then, I have lived in my car while trying to start another business. KC to this day still terrifies my wife and in-laws on their doorstep. I have not been able to live with my wife, see my children, for three years. Although I had paid almost $200,000 in after tax money through the years.
Last July I slashed my wrist and didn't die. The American Govt. would accept this I know. My grandfather was machine gunned in the stomach and mustard gassed in Bellau Woods in 1917. My father was at Pearl Harbor, fought at Leyte Gulf, Savo Islands, Coral Sea, Midway, I was drafted and served form 1969 to 1973. I HATE THIS COUNTRY! The IRS with the enthusiastic support of other state, local, and federal authorities along with the current zeitgeist, that calls for the destruction of fathers through any means necessary have made me a pariah, an outcast, and a man on the run with warrants out for his arrest. I have never broken a law. My crimes, are not making enough money fast enough. Keith Cummings and his ilk, don't gravitate to the IRS for the same reasons we came to our professions. They really are, the Spanish Inquisition, the Gestapo, Stalin, Mao, and every thing that our fathers and forefathers fought against for centuries. America is dead, God rest her once beautiful soul.IRS Abuse Report #598
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 04:24:41 EDT
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I was subjected to an audit which lasted 5 years and cost me $ 150,000 to defend against. I eventually received an apology from district commissioner in LA -- but I am still out my money.IRS Abuse Report #599
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:21:36 -0000
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They have harassed me for the last 10 years. They took my last years $3400 refund for 1988 taxes.IRS Abuse Report #600
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:54:45 -0700
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Based on real income and expenses my 1980 and 1981 tax debt was $42,000. An audit concluded with as assessment or $474,000. Collections began immediately; then came the liens, one for $928,000. I Lost the business, the residence, the pension and the college fund. The family disbanded. There were health and credit problems. A 1986 Offer In Compromise (OIC) was finally rejected in 1991. Why? I did another OIC in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 1999. All were rejected because it was determined that I had the ability to pay the tax, which reached $1.7 million and increased by $150,000 per year. I'm unemployed. Until recently I was living with my mother. An IRS letter stated that if I gain employment, my tax status will be revoked, meaning the IRS will get the bulk of my wages. So, here I sit. What to do? I was 39 in 1980. The IRS may be waiting for a small inheritance, which will be my only source of income. Unbelievable!IRS Abuse Report #601
Date: Tue Nov 21 7:19:42 2000
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From: CW
My husband was illegally investigated for over 3 years and then charged with willful failure to file. At trial the Magistrate threw out ALL of his evidence without even looking at it. He denied expert witnesses and then as a part of his jury instructions he proceeded to tell the jury that my husband was required to file. He used the governments figures to increase the sentencing guideline from a level 6 to a 13 which resulted in a longer sentence and numerous fines. My husband is a successful businessman whose 28 years of work will be destroyed if these criminals, the IRS AND THE DEPT.OF JUSTICE, are not stopped. Can anyone justify to me why an honest man who has broken no laws must give up a year and a half of his life?IRS Abuse Report #602
Date: Tue Jan 30 23:24:21 2001
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I did not file a return for 85 86 87 88. I had Payroll taxes with held and enough deductions to not owe at the end of the year. I began filing again in 89 The IRS called me in on unfilled taxes. I filed an appeal and said I would go to tax court, The appeals officer MH said there was no reason to go to court, that the IRS was eager to work it out with me and it would be no big deal. I and my wife contacted the IRS several times over the next 2 years, each time BH said there was no reason to do anything and the IRS would contact me to work it out later. Well, later finally came. They harassed the life out of us, I'm now stuck paying more than I can afford, living in little 1 bedroom working to pay what I did not owe.IRS Abuse Report #603
Date: Thu Feb 8 15:51:38 2001
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From: C. M.
I purchased a home on a 13 year land contract in 1989, then married a few years later. We needed a bigger house & bought in 1997. The man I bought the land-contracted home from died shortly there-after & it went into an estate. There were five children who inherited from him. When we finally sold the house two years later, April of 1999 for 35K , we owed only approximately 9k, ten years payments of the thirteen year contract, we get right down to the closing & the title search & find out that one of the five kids has a 55K IRS tax lean & the IRS has attached it to our property!!!! ' We have been fighting them now for two years, have lost big financially & seem to be no closer to being able to release the property now then we were two years ago =(( The land contract was recorded in the county courthouse & no-one has disputed the fact that we have paid according to our contract. I want to sell my house!!!!!! It is ours, we can come up with the pay-off amount & yet we cannot get a title.IRS Abuse Report #604
Date: Sun Mar 25 1:18:08 2001
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From: Mike
It started 5 years ago when I was notified that the IRS wanted to do a routine audit for 1995 and 96 tax records. I cooperated fully with the audit. The auditor disallowed all my business expenses. He asked my support friend to leave the audit interview, said he was not needed? He came to my place of business several times without an appointment, even on Christmas Eve. The IRS is trying to take my property now. I have 4 kids and make about 25,000 a year, working as a care home nurse. They say I owe $700,000 this was for 1996 tax, which I filled, and it was done by an accountant. I never received a notice of deficiency, and recently a lien was placed on all my assists. I am a good American citizen and family man, I love my country, but the IRS has to go!IRS Abuse Report #605
Date: Tue Mar 27 0:10:56 2001
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From: SG
I filed a tax return for the year 1987. The IRS “lost' this return. This was the year they “lost' a bunch in the trash because the implemented a new computer system for the worker processing returns that failed miserably and most of these returns ended up in the trash. On that return I thought I would get about 200 dollars back. It never came. The IRS 5 and ½ years later notified me that I failed to file a return. After many threats from the IRS I filed a return from that year from some receipts and memory. They disallowed moving expenses. This left me owing $700+ dollars. for which the IRS charge me $3500 dollars per year in negligence penalties + interest and other penalties. They seized money from my bank accounts which I was forced to pay each bank over $1500 dollars for each one of these seizure transactions. They called my co-workers and threatened them saying that they better get me to pay my taxes. All in all they took over $33,000 dollars for them losing the return.
A year or so later my first wife died in a car accident in November 1994. We filed a late form in august, after an extension, and it showed we owed like $450 dollars. The accountant said to wait till next year because the following return would cancel the amount owed. When she died in November I notified the IRS as required, that she had passed. The first conversation with them they said that they showed an amount owed to them and that i could take my time paying them. 2 weeks later a levy and seizure notice shows up for 750 dollars. i find my bank account is frozen. I call the number and get a collections officer. I asked why the harsh treatment my wife just died for god's sake. He answered. “ We know about your and your past problems. I am glad she's dead so now I can go after you with impunity and extreme prejudice. Going after me with “impunity and extreme prejudice' I could only interpret as a physical threat of violence or death.IRS Abuse Report #606
Date: Mon Jul 9 2:00:59 2001
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From: TF
My own IRS nightmare began about eight years ago starting with the lies, threats and liens for back taxes. My wife and I did finally pay in excess of the taxes owed, but by the time we did so, the interest and penalties had tripled the original amount! And to make matters worse, the IRS applied all the money we paid towards the old I & P. Selling our business to pay them off...another big mistake. Because you never get out from under the pressure of it. After 8 years and 11 IRS Collection Power Specialists later, we were talked into making a Offer in Compromise. What was submitted was rejected and because it was, The IRS added another year of collectibility to each of the liens. If you want to take your case to court, that is also a waste of time. It will be heard in a federal court and who do you think will win? When you lose and you're case is considered to be without merit, an additional $25,000 will be added to what you already owe! They need to wake up and realize the tragic consequences they are creating by pushing ordinary people over the edge. The man in Boston who killed 7 workers because the IRS forcefully took his income, is an example. Another is myself, not working for the last four years, I gave.IRS Abuse Report #607
Date: Wed Jul 11 17:57:53 2001
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From: SM
The IRS levied our bank account and sucked up all our money for food, our house payment, and medicine for our child who has asthma. (we have no health insurance). The agent telephoned my home and left me a nasty screaming message on my answering machine, and one on my cell phone (both of which were recorded and I have retained). The agent also called our current employer, and spoke to another employee, and told the employee about our tax problems. This employee is one of our peers! We already agreed that we owe money, and have already agreed that we will make monthly payments. The agent is just being vindictive. If the IRS wants us to pay, why do they jeopardize our job like that? No employer wants problems with the IRS. It appears that I have absolutely no recourse.IRS Abuse Report #608
Date: Wed Jul 11 20:52:40 2001
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From: DG
My husband lost his job of 15 years May 14th. Since May 14th, I've been the sole support for us. I make barely over $1000 net a month. We have savings, but that is going quickly. When we filed, we knew we owed $1,350 for year 2000. I sent in a $100 payment and wanted an installment agreement. I was going to send another payment in May, when he lost his job. I did send payments in June & July of $100 each. Now the IRS sent us a letter saying that they were going to put a tax lien on my earnings. This, after I wrote a letter with my last payment telling them of our circumstances. I am currently trying to salvage the little money we have in our savings account so we can make the rent at the end of the month. They really are a heartless entity, made up of cold and uncaring individuals. We don't owe that much, in the scheme of things, but when you are living on an income of $250 a week, that is a great deal indeed. They're treating us like we owe millions. I am thoroughly disgusted and disheartened. Not only am I constantly depressed, but my husband feels like a worthless piece of ---- and our marriage is in serious jeopardy. How dare they ruin our lives! What can be done about it? Now, next month, we might be homeless. I can't believe that this is happening to two people who have always given their fair share of taxes.IRS Abuse Report #609
Date: Sun Jul 22 15:59:51 2001
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My wife and I are engineers, we are employees of major corporations, our combined take home pay in 97 was about $65K and in 98 about $68K (we are low paid). Our assets included our house ($125K), our 401Ks ($125K), and about $50K in the stock market. Other than that, we are no different than any other American family, we do not operate any business or have other assets or income. Pretty average. I got behind in my filing for 97 and 98 returns, I guess the reason was my stock market trades were rather complicated (but no gains there), but no problem, the IRS was more than happy to file a return for me. They demanded an additional $170K in taxes, penalties, and interest for those two years.IRS Abuse Report #610
Date: Fri Aug 3 21:13:04 2001
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From: md
In 1992 a back tax was owed supposedly for 1991 and 1992, which we were only told about in1998, can you believe it they waited all this time. And let me tell you why folks why they do this so they can charge you thousands of dollars in penalty and interest all to their benefit this is why they wait 8 years or longer to tell you. When you finally get the letter of how much you owe there is no way you can possible pay this amount and they know this so they charge you more interest. We have tried our best to pay for ten years but it keeps getting worse everything we make in our business goes to the IRS for money we do not owe. Every year they come up with fictional amounts we owe on money that was already paid several times over. We have lost 3 properties one house and another store they just confiscated it. It has ruined our lives beyond anyone's comprehension, these people are cold blooded parasites. They are corrupt beyond our imagination. We do not know how much longer we can fight because basically we are just working to pay them constant money we do not owe. In this country it is better to be a bum you have nothing they want or they can take. This is why so many people are moving out of the US, and our politicians wont help.
IRS Abuse Report #611Date: Wed Sep 5 19:52:44 2001
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From: PR
My husband was a POW in Viet Nam for over 6 years. He was an out patient for several years due to his war experiences. During that difficult time, he acquired a debt to the IRS He had a total breakdown in 1993,and was hospitalized ,declared totally disabl ed by the V.A. and Social Security. From this time until his death from a service related heart condition, we were constantly harassed by the IRS My husband filed bankruptcy, but to no avail. Once, when my husband was in the hospital, an agent was so rude to me that I hung up on him, and several weeks later, I received a letter stating that I had agreed to pay 40$ a month to them, which was totally untrue. We were in the process of having our home repossessed, and could not afford anything ,as we at that time ,had no income. The worst part was that my husband's condition often made him paranoid and much sicker in other ways, so the constant harassment made our life a nightmare. When he died in 1998,even that didn't satisfy the IRS I have had a heart attac k and 2 heart surgeries, and they still have no mercy, but refuse to lift the lien on my house ,so that I can find a less expensive place to live. My roof is leaking, and many repairs need to be done that I can't afford, but they have no sympathy ,even th ough my husband actually died from serving his country. I can't work anymore, and live on a fixed income, and I lost my health trying to help my husband ,when the truth is that THEY, the U.S. government not only did not helped ,but made his life a living hell, I do not doubt for a second that they are greatly responsible for his early death, and many other problems that we had in his final years. My mind simply can't comprehend a government body with this much cruelty and power.IRS Abuse Report #612
Date: Mon Sep 10 19:18:14 2001
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From: HR
I am an IRS employee. I have seen the lies, waste of tax dollars. Friends made managers of units that don't exist. Managers who got their jobs because their boss went to school with their friend's mother. They party together after work. Returns dumped in burn barrels. Managers told of sexual harassment that say it's all in your mind.IRS Abuse Report #613
Date: Wed Sep 20 14:57:49 2000
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The IRS sent me a letter saying that I owed back taxes for 1995 that I did not receive until April of 2000! To further complicate this matter they levied my bank account and seized it without notifying me....I didn't realize this until I tried to use the ATM and my card didn't work...and to top it off the agent called my place of employment and harassed me…threatening me with audits and wage garnishment....and all sorts of penalties. I sent them an offer of compromise which of course they rejected.....I e ntered into an agreement with them which I expect to be changed at any time! And after all this was over, they sent me a request for a survey wanting me to sign saying that I was treated fairly and sent out a second request saying that they hadn't heard f rom me the first time!!!! Who will lead this revolt to eliminate these bloodsuckers from our lives? What the hell happened to this country to make law-abiding Americans afraid of their own government? Our forefathers should (rightly so) be ashamed of us f or putting up with this!IRS Abuse Report #614
Date: Tue Nov 14 14:21:43 2000
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From: CM
The IRS began terrorizing my life when I was a sophomore in High School. My father was mercilessly audited and ultimately tossed into prison, he supported his family my whole life. I cannot begin to explain the hardships we have faced, financially, emotio nally, mentally, and physically, in the past few years, all because of a meager tax mistake. I fell into a deep depression and many times contemplated suicide. My life before the IRS came into it was, for lack of a better word, perfect. I resent the IRS. How can their actions be tolerated or even legal?IRS Abuse Report #615
Date: Thu Nov 16 19:59:59 2000
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From: DP
I have a small business doing tax returns for other people. This year the IRS notified me that they were auditing all my tax returns. No reason was given. I have not committed any criminal acts. The majority of the returns have been thrown out, even thou gh they are honest. I try to help my clients but my life has turned into hell.IRS Abuse Report #616
Date: Thu Nov 22 3:04:50 2001
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I'm a disabled war vet single parent with three children working at least 12 hours a night. Will that's not what the IRS wanted to believe. The IRS said that I didn't have any children and started to come after me for what they said I owed $1,500.00 p lus interest for 1995 and didn't give me my 1996 refund for $3,000.00 and still said I owed for 1995. Even though I was to receive $2,000.00 as a return for my 1995 return.IRS Abuse Report #617
Date: Wed Dec 6 10:55:53 2000
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From: Pa
The IRS has caused serious health problems for me and others who are employed by me, who have had to deal with their forceful, unwarranted intrusions. Panic attacks and recurring anxiety attacks are very unhealthy. I have been dealing with them for seve ral years now, when your back is against the wall with them, it feels like life or death. My family has suffered immensely.IRS Abuse Report #618
Date: Sun Dec 23 2:10:17 2001
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From: TS
I was married and had four children in rapid succession. An IRS agent that I had known since childhood started hanging out at my house and was desperate to be married, he soon started dating one of my wife's friends and engaged her as soon as she would ag ree. She later started dating another one of our friends and inevitably married the latter of the two.
During this time the agent used to tell us stories of arresting very elderly people and escorting them from their homes because there used to be a farm in the family and upon investigation found that the farm was gone, the owners had grown old and his off ice estimated what a farm might be worth, the farm had been in the family for three generations. His justification for this action is the farm was worth x amount many years ago and now the farm was worth much less than x so the missing amount must have go ne somewhere and so they owed the taxes. I would argue that many years elapsed and the owner was so old and retired and just wanted to live his life out on his family farm.
I was not involved in match making. It just happened that way. The agent was frustrated with me for a long time trying to convince me to help me get her back for him. To make a long story short I've had nothing but problems every since. Soon we lost our h ouse, my wife was diagnosed Bi Polar and depressed and left us. I have done odd jobs and depended on family to help me raise the kids as child care would cost more that I ever made. My ex wife still thinks her phones are tapped and still thinks someone i s spying on her. I lost my job and house and truck and he has estimated I owe $10,000 per year since with penalties and interest the numbers are staggering. I have tried to contact the IRS and explain my problem but they say it is up to me to prove I do n ot owe the money. My kids go to the same school as the agent and they are quite impressed when his kids are dropped off by a chauffer driven limousine (one of his perks from the government for high production) on his way to work. I cannot believe this man was brought up in church all his life and still goes there. There is no math to justify what he has done for so many years. There are five hundred members at this church and all fear his ability and he has caused others much harm.