IRS blasted for freezing refunds

[katty]

more at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10791863/

Advocate blasts IRS for freezing refunds
Program cited for failing to notify taxpayers they are fraud suspects

Updated: 4:16 p.m. ET Jan. 10, 2006

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service freezes tens of thousands of tax refunds it deems questionable without telling people that they’re suspected of fraud, the nation’s taxpayer advocate said Tuesday.

Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson detailed the program, called the Questionable Refund Program, in her annual list of the worst problems facing taxpayers. Her office, which helps sort out disputes with the IRS, has seen a mounting number of people seeking help to claim frozen refunds.

“It is a central tenet of American law that the government must notify an accused person of the offense it suspects he committed and must give the accused person an opportunity to present exculpatory evidence to show his innocence,” Olson said in her report.

[bluerum]

1. Watching my rights trickle down the drain one by one. eom

[neuvocat]

2. Gotta pay for the Iraq war somehow, you know.

Screw the taxpayers, because after all, they don't seem to mind anyway. That's the way of the Bush cartel.

[sasha031]

3. if this doesn't piss off the freeps at this adm.

nothing ever will

[katty]

4. agree

[tom_paine]

5. Then nothing ever will. Freeps have the rigidity of Nazis

and the same obedience to Leader.

Not all, mind you. No group is 100% uniform. But Freeps and Nazis come close.