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The bailout bill also gives the Internal Revenue Service new authority to conduct undercover operations. It would immunize the IRS from a passel of federal laws, including permitting IRS agents to run businesses for an extended sting operation, to open their own personal bank accounts with U.S. tax dollars, and so on. (Think IRS agents posing as accountants or tax preparers and saying, “I’m not sure if that deduction is entirely legal, but it’ll save you $1,000. Want to take it?”) That section had expired as of January 1, 2008, and would now be renewed.

Starting with the so-called Anti-Drug Abuse Act in 1988, the IRS has possessed this authority temporarily, with occasional multiple-year lapses. A 1999 internal report said the IRS had 126 “trained undercover agents” working in field offices at the time. This is the first time that such undercover authority would be made permanent.

Sens. Max Baucus (D) and Chuck Grassley (R) have been pushing to make it permanent for a while, claiming in April that: “Undercover operations are an integral part of IRS efforts to detect and prove noncompliance. The temporary status of this provision creates uncertainty, as the IRS plans its undercover efforts from year to year.”

There’s another section of the bailout bill worth noting. It lets the IRS give information from individual tax returns to any federal law enforcement agency investigating suspected “terrorist” activity, which can, in turn, share it with local and state police. Intelligence agencies such as the CIA and the National Security Agency can also receive that information.

The information that can be shared includes “a taxpayer’s identity, the nature, source, or amount of his income, payments, receipts, deductions, exemptions, credits, assets, liabilities, net worth, tax liability, tax withheld, deficiencies, overassessments, or tax payments, whether the taxpayer’s return was, is being, or will be examined or subject to other investigation or processing, or any other data received by, recorded by, prepared by, furnished to, or collected by the Secretary with respect to a return.” More

MIAMI, June 30 (UPI) — The U.S. Justice Department went to court Monday to try to get a Swiss bank’s account records so the IRS can hunt for U.S. tax evaders, federal officials said. In papers filed in federal court in Miami, the Justice Department acknowledges that in seeking to obtain the account information from UBS AG (NYSE:UBS) of Zurich, Switzerland, the Internal Revenue Service isn’t looking for specific individuals suspected of harboring assets in the bank. Instead, it wants the IRS to be allowed to serve what is called a “John Doe” summons on the bank to obtain information about possible tax fraud by people whose identities are unknown. The Justice Department action follows the June 19 guilty plea by former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld, who claims the Swiss bank had about $20 billion of assets under management in “undeclared” accounts for U.S. taxpayers. Birkenfeld pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS by assisting UBS clients in avoiding U.S. reporting requirements on income in Swiss bank accounts.

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“This video illustrates the complicated, but well-orchestrated efforts by the Church of Scientology to manipulate tax structure of the United States Government. Please pay special attention to the end of this extremely well-done video, as key components of ex-Scientologist Larry Brennan’s May 6th affidavit is stated. Larry, who may have coined the phrase ‘religious cloaking’ goes on record to reveal a systematic and sustained effort by CoS officials to coerce and infiltrate essential entities of our society for ultimate goal of taking over the world using founder and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard’s philosophies and ‘tech’”.

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CAROL POLSKY
NewsDay
Through the wonders of modern technology, some of those federal economic stimulus checks are being deposited directly into recipients’ bank accounts. But some are not - and are instead winding up in the bank accounts of complete strangers.

“We do know of instances of problems; we’ve heard of situations where stimulus checks have gone to the wrong people’s bank accounts,” conceded Kevin McKeon, the Internal Revenue Service spokesman for the New York region. “We’re getting a lot of calls to the toll-free number.”

One local taxpayer, who asked not to be identified, reported that he had discovered an unexpected deposit of $1,800 in his bank account. He said a review of his bank records revealed that it was a deposit from the IRS bearing another taxpayer’s Social Security number. Read more

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Today is April 15th, Tax Day, a day when tens of millions of Americans scramble to file their income taxes on time. It’s also a day when people across the country are planning to protest the use of tax dollars to fund war. A recent study shows that more than 40 percent of every income tax dollar in 2007 went towards military spending. We speak with Pat and John Schwiebert, a Portland couple who have refused to pay their taxes for the past thirty years to protest military spending.

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