When you’re busy targeting conservatives for extra scrutiny, it’s tough to do your job right.

I have always done my own taxes and being self employed, I have always had to pay at tax time. Not a bad thing. I would rather owe than have Uncle keep my money. Anyway a few years ago I had a particularly difficult tax return. I filed it and sent along a rather large check. several months later I got a letter stating that I still owed another $1200. I wet over all my records and did find a discrepancy but it was for a smaller amount but rather than dispute it and cause more problems I went ahead and paid the $1200. Another couple months past by and I recieved another letter from the IRS referencing the same issue stating that I owed $950, which was almost the amount of the discrepancy that I had found, WTF? It took the next several months, with letters and visits to the local IRS office to get them to admit that I had paid the $1200 but they never did refund the difference to me between the $1200 and $950. BUNCH OF JERKS working there.

I have paid taxes for as long as I have worked. For the past five years I have filed electronically, doing everything correctly except checking up on my filed returns. This past tax year 2013, I filed as usual, owing some $7k, again filing electronically with payment withdrawal information. 2 months go by and the amount was still in my account. Went to local office where I was told I hadn’t filed in two years and that I owed a bunch more for “failure to file”, etc. Long and short of it, someone filed with my SS number and my filing was rejected, for the past two years I received NO notice of any impropriety even though it was pretty evident it wasn’t me that filed since it was a single individual that filed for me and I have filed as married filing jointly for 30 years. When I went to pay them for the past year, I was told I owed more and it would be better if I paid them all the interest and penalties right then. The agent admitted there was fraud and submitted the past two years to the ID Theft section for investigation. The agent even said it wasn’t meant to defraud me, but the IRS. The $1100 I owed in interest and penalties was cut to $317.26 after the IRS recalculated my recently-resubmitted returns for 2011-2103, because they owed me from my miscalculation. I paid by check the remaining $317.26, which cleared on 9/9/14. I received a letter from the IRS dated September 22 stating I owed them $317.26 plus 0.92 interest. My question is “IS ANYONE HOME AT THE IRS THESE DAYS?” How long will I have to be on the phone with someone, if I can even talk to a human, before this has a chance of being resolved? I’m not even asking for tax exemption status. What has this country come to? Do people hate thus country so bad that our own people are being turned against us, without remedy?

For seven years, I have been asking the most basic questions that can be asked; What law makes me, an individual liable?; What law repealed the requirement of apportionment of direct taxation?; What Supreme Court case changed the meaning of income from “a profit or gain severed from capital”?; What evidence do you have that I have taxable income?

These fundamental questions have gone unanswered for seven years. During this period I have received more than 50 IRS letters stating that they will answer me in 45 days! Yet they still continue to threaten me without providing an answer to my questions. Well, according to your article, my odds are increasing from 8.4 million letters that only 50% get answered! Go figure?

When I used to do my own taxes, there was always some minor descrepency…I would write every time to ask what additional income had been reported and from whom, as I had reported everything (it was always below $200) and never, never, never ever got a response and finally paid out of desperation and fear of what this out of control corrupt agency could do. And it is 1000 times worse now as far as the corruption goes.