The IRS deleted a job posting Wednesday seeking a Special Agent “willing to use deadly force” for its law enforcement division, Criminal Investigation (CI). The deletion came amid renewed scrutiny of the IRS in response to a Democrat-backed spending bill that would double the size of the agency.
“As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes,” the job advertisement read.
“No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government,” the job posting continued.
The IRS has long been under scrutiny for being another politicized Government body. They never could explain and had to openly apologize for their detailed efforts to specifically go after conservative PACs for approval and ending up openly politicizing audits. They have long been known to be used by higher ups to go after political opponents.
Now they want to double the size of the agency and give them guns to boot? Nobody wants this, nobody asked for this, and nobody approves of this... other than Democratic politicians in power? Care to take a stab at why?
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If Trump was the President and the IRS enforcement agency would be going after his opponents.
This time they are going after only about 150 companies who have evaded taxation for decades after the Ronald Reagan era.
The only time you trust the government is under Donald Trump and his allies and people like DeSantis 👍.
You won't post this.
The National Review is another Federalist philosophy publication.
They made assumptions and opinions about using deadly force.
Okay Roger...
I will bite!
Tell us which people the Trump administration had the IRS go after?
I will patiently wait. Don't bother to comment on anything else (you know like the 10 other comments in my moderations attacking me personally) until you can back up your claim that Trump used the IRS.
There are examples after examples of the IRS going after conservatives.
Hey Roger...
The job posting literally stated that the job required carrying a gun and might involve deadly force. It was on the website. That is why it became a story.
I thought you were supposed to be some sort of genius?
The IRS has a hard job to do, but worry about the IRS inventory of weapons is not new. An official report published by the Government Accountability Office said that at the end of 2017, the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in its weapons inventory.
Income tax return documents and handcuffs. Tax evasion, crime and fraud concept.
background, no peopleGETTY
Many federal agencies were reviewed and assessed in the GAO study, Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammunition, and Tactical Equipment (GAO-19-175) (Dec 13, 2018). Some of the guns the IRS has are fully automatic machine guns. Compared to seeing gun-toting IRS Agents at your door, a correspondence audit doesn’t sound too bad. An audit report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration covering 2009 to 2011 said that IRS Agents accidentally discharged their guns 11 times during that time. The report says that IRS agents fired their guns accidentally more times than they did intentionally. Some of the misfires caused property damage or personal injury. A few defendants in criminal tax cases have tried to suppress evidence based on the IRS carrying guns.
In United States v. Adams, the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Charles Adams’ conviction for conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing payroll tax collections and tax evasion. Mr. Adams was convicted despite his argument that the IRS agents carrying guns was not allowed by law. Mr. Adams was essentially treated as a tax protester, which is clearly a pejorative term. Even so, he isn’t the first taxpayer to be unhappy about the IRS having weapons. In fact, an IRS business card can cause more heart palpitations than the CIA, FBI, or Department of Justice. You don’t need to see a firearm to get weak in the knees.
There is a separate part of the IRS that is criminal, not civil. Like the FBI, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division uses the Special Agent terminology. If you are visited by an IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent, you should consult with an attorney. You are not legally required to talk to them. In fact, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees your right against self-incrimination. That means you can’t be compelled to be a witness against yourself in a criminal case. You may believe that by answering a few simple questions you will not hurt yourself or your position—especially if you are just a witness. Yet speaking up might actually help the IRS build a criminal case against you. The IRS may (quite honestly) tell you that you are not the target of the investigation, but merely a witness. Even so, you are entitled to retain counsel. Besides, the IRS view of you may change.
CNBC says nothing like you got from a Federalist in magazine.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/with-87000-new-agents-heres-who-the-irs-may-target-for-audits.html
Discrediting the agencies in the longest lasting Democratic Republic in the history of the world, is simply defined as a fascist attack on the United States of America and for which it stands.
The former President Donald Trump tried to do that long before election day.
It got worse and eventually it resulted in the January 6th insurrection on the Capital building.
When he is arrested and charged with three of more charges, you will again discredit the Department to Justice and the state of Georgia.
The Forbes article discredited the article you posted 📫.
The F.B.I. has a history at the intersection of politics and investigations. Under J. Edgar Hoover, its longtime director, the bureau bugged and pursued domestic opponents of the federal government, at times serving as a political tool of various presidents of both parties. But with revelations of past abuses after Hoover’s death in 1972, Congress and the F.B.I. sought to cast off the bureau’s history and transform it into a more professional, politically neutral organization.
F.B.I. directors were appointed to 10-year terms to make them less subject to presidential whims, a new office of professional responsibility was established, the House and the Senate set up intelligence oversight committees, and other reforms were enacted to remove the bureau from politics. Along the way, the bureau earned the respect of both parties and many Americans in the last half-century.
That built-up store of public credibility has eroded significantly in the Trump years. The proportion of Americans who told Gallup pollsters that they thought the F.B.I. was doing a good job fell from 57 percent in 2019 to 44 percent in 2021.
I actually remember when Hoover went after Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
Wray was appointed by President Donald Trump.
Roger...
waiting for that list of Liberals that Trump used the IRS to go after.
Perhaps you should garner that list before making any other comments.
two high-ranking former FBI officials who had been fired by then President Trump were both subjected to a rare type of IRS audit. Subsequent headlines from major media outlets implied that former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were selected for these audits because they antagonized the former president.
waiting for that list of Liberals that Trump used the IRS to go after.
What if the FBI raid uncovers documents listing liberals that Trump TRIED to get the FBI to go after?
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