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NEWS: * IRS Fails to Pursue Billions in Back Taxes, U.S. Auditors Say
* Defying the I.R.S., Anti-Tax Businesses Refuse to Withhold
* IRS says numbers, names don't match - Many will have to show marriage papers
INFORMATION: * The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
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NEWS: * IRS Fails to Pursue Billions in Back Taxes, U.S. Auditors Say
By Ryan J. Donmoyer
Washington, Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Internal Revenue Service is failing to pursue billions of dollars in overdue taxes and is reluctant to ask for more resources from a Congress that has been critical of its enforcement actions, government accountants said.
The General Accounting Office, an investigative agency tied to Congress, said that in fiscal year 1999, the year after the U.S. Senate Finance Committee held hearings that portrayed the IRS as too aggressive, the agency backed away from some actions to collect delinquent accounts.
"IRS's failure to pursue certain taxpayers owing taxes to the federal government could result in billions of dollars in outstanding amounts going uncollected and adversely affect future compliance,'' the GAO said.
The GAO recommended that Congress require the IRS to provide ``reliable cost-based performance indicators and other relevant aggregate cost/benefit data'' when the agency seeks an increase in its enforcement budget.
The IRS is reluctant to do that on its own, the GAO said, because it's afraid of being accused of placing too much emphasis on enforcement, which got it in trouble with Congress in the past.
In its response to the report, the IRS said it would rather address such cost/benefit issues in its own strategic planning than submit them to Congress.
Meanwhile, the IRS has so much trouble accurately tracking disbursements that it may be issuing billions of dollars in improper refunds, the GAO said, without specifying an estimate. The agency also continues to have difficulty releasing liens when appropriate, keeping its own books, and safeguarding taxpayer information, the GAO said.
* Defying the I.R.S., Anti-Tax Businesses Refuse to Withhold
The NY Times - November 19, 2000
By David Cay Johnston
LAKE SHASTA, Calif. Al Thompson squeezed most of his manufacturing company's 28 employees into a conference room here in October to say he had good news: Income taxes must be paid by only a few Americans, mostly those working for foreign-owned companies. So, he told the workers, they would not have to pay income taxes ever again. His business is exempt, too, he said.
No Social Security or Medicare taxes, either. The company was no longer withholding taxes from their paychecks, he said, or telling the Internal Revenue Service how much they made.
Mr. Thompson is part of a tiny but increasingly flamboyant fringe of American business. Arguing that the federal tax laws do not apply to them, these small companies are thumbing their noses at the I.R.S. in a very public way: they have not only stopped withholding taxes and turning them over to the government, they are also bragging about it on Web sites and radio talk shows, and organizing seminars to promote the gospel of defiance.
* IRS says numbers, names don't match
Many will have to show marriage papers
11/17/2000 - AP
NEW YORK – Millions of Americans may have to dig out their marriage certificates after the IRS sent out letters warning women that the married names on their tax returns do not match their Social Security numbers.
Most of the cases involve women who took their husbands' names when they got married. For various reasons, their new names were entered incorrectly into the Social Security system or weren't entered at all.
The IRS said that unless the taxpayers straighten out the problem with the Social Security Administration, when they file their tax returns in the spring they could be denied the earned income tax credit or the personal exemption a spouse gets when a couple files jointly.
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INFORMATION: * The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
by Richard J. Marbury
Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.
The official story has the pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, coming to America and establishing the Plymouth colony in the winter of 1620-21. This first winter is hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are hard working and tenacious, and they learn new farming techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is bountiful. The Pilgrims hold a celebration, and give thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new abundant land He has given them.
The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or less happily ever after, each year repeating the first Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also have hard times at first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land called America.
The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves. In his `History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years, because they refused to work in the fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with "corruption," and with "confusion and discontent." The crops were small because "much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable."
In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, "all had their hungry bellies filled," but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first "Thanksgiving" was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.
But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, "instead of famine now God gave them plenty," Bradford wrote, "and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God." Thereafter, he wrote, "any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day." In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn. What happened?
After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, "they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop." They began to question their form of economic organization. This had required that "all profits & benefits that are got by trade,working, fishing, or any other means" were to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that, "all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock." A person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take out only what he needed.
This "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that "young men that are most able and fit for labor and service" complained about being forced to "spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children." Also, "the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak." So the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced was never adequate.
To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of famines.
Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called "The Starving Time," the population fell from five-hundred to sixty.
Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market, and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at Plymouth. In 1614, Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote that after the switch there was "plenty of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure." He said that when the socialist system had prevailed, "we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty men as three men have done for themselves now."
Before these free markets were established, the colonists had nothing for which to be thankful. They were in the same situation as Ethiopians are today, and for the same reasons. But after free markets were established, the resulting abundance was so dramatic that the annual Thanksgiving celebrations became common throughout the colonies, and in 1863, Thanksgiving became a national holiday.
Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them.
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Tax Freedom 101 Modest Suggestion: Maybe this year, just prior to the blessing and the dinner you should read before the entire family, "The Great Thanksgiving Hoax" as written by the historian Richard J. Marbury. We can all soon forget our history, unless it is repeated verbally and accurately to others. And if we fail to share our nations rich heritage and history correctly, we will be consigned to repeating the parts less favorable.
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving Day,
The Tax Freedom 101 Staff
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