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0 pointsnostromo6y ago0 comments

> they harass and assault people for all sorts of subjective made up infractions.

The IRS does this all the time.

And unlike criminal law, the burden of proof is on the accused, not the state.

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vkou6y ago· 1 in thread

Does it actually disproportionately harass people who follow proper accounting practices, and who report their income correctly? Is it harassment when they actually identify that money was owed?

Or is this just a meme largely spread by a demographic who is upset that their magic internet money is, in fact, subject to taxes (or, alternatively, a demographic that thinks all taxes are theft)?

cloakandswagger6y ago

Funny that you mention crypto (I assume that's what you're derisively referring to).

Did you know that the ominous, threatening letters sent out by the IRS to crypto traders was an indiscriminate shotgun blast of mailings sent to every Coinbase customer with an account value over a certain threshold? Did you know that the IRS wanted personal info on every single Coinbase customer until that was ruled unlawful?

So yes, thousands of presumably innocent people who "followed proper accounting practices and who reported their income correctly" were harassed by a letter from a tax agency insinuating that they had misreported crypto earnings.

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