IRS steals10 million medical records in CA

When I caught from The Hill this morning that the Dems are sleeping sounding, believing all is well in Obamacare regardless of the IRS kerfuffle, I simply started laughing myself silly.   No warrant required.

A growing chorus of Democratic leaders says the current controversy surrounding  the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should have no effect on the agency’s work  implementing President Obama’s healthcare reform law.

A number of Republicans have said the recent revelation that IRS officials had  targeted conservative groups leaves the agency with no credibility as it  prepares to implement those parts of the reform law under its watch.

Courthouse News had a twitter out here that should put a bit of a chill down the Dems spine:

Class Calls IRS Rude, Crude and Abusive –  By the way, sign up and catch us on twitter @Bunkerville

DIEGO (CN) – A lurid but vague class action accuses corrupt and abusive IRS agents of stealing 10 million people’s medical records without a warrant – including “intimate medical records of every state judge in California.”

John Doe Company sued 15 John Doe IRS agents in Superior Court.

“In a case involving solely a tax matter involving a former employee of the company, these agents stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans, including at least 1,000,000 Californians.

“No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA [sic: recte HIPAA] facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records.

The IRS agents ignored and discarded each of these warnings, ignored their own published and public-reliant rules and governing ethical requirements, and ignored the limitations of the court’s search warrant authorization, seizing the records under threat of destroying company property.” Full story at Courthouse News

Smoking Gun: IRS gave out illegal info on Conservative Groups

It has been reported by numerous individuals that they came under investigation after becoming involved in Conservative causes. Audits became the potential outcome. Looking for the smoking gun?   News Alert brings us this:

After receiving the unapproved applications, ProPublica tried to determine why they had been sent. In emails, IRS spokespeople said ProPublica shouldn’t have received them.

“It has come to our attention that you are in receipt of application materials of organizations that have not been recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt,” wrote one spokeswoman, Michelle Eldridge. She cited a law saying that publishing unauthorized returns or return information was a felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment of up to five years, or both.

The same IRS office that deliberately targeted [1] conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year [2].

The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications were sent to ProPublica.

 In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six [2] of those [3] public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)  More at  Propublica

Bill to hold Passports of Americans who owe taxes moving along

The Republican Mother brings us this news. Maybe now we know more about the Check Points that the DHS is working on. No way out of the U.S. soon. Just claim a citizen owes taxes and they take your passport.Recall DHS adding bullet proof Guard Booths to its arsenal or recall

 Debtor Prisons returns to the United States

More than a third of all states now allow borrowers who don’t pay their bills to be jailed, even when debtor’s prisons have been explicitly banned by state constitutions. A report by the American Civil Liberties Union found that people were imprisoned even when the cost of doing so exceeded the amount of debt they owed.

Via CBS

After clearing the Senate on a 74 – 22 vote on March 14, SB 1813 is now headed for a vote in the House of Representatives, where it’s expected to encounter stiffer opposition among the GOP majority.
In addition to authorizing appropriations for federal transportation and infrastructure programs, the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” or “MAP-21″ [Agenda 21 anyone?!!!] includes a provision that would allow for the “revocation or denial” of a passport for anyone with “certain unpaid taxes” or “tax delinquencies”.
Section 40304 of the legislation states that any individual who owes more than $50,000 to the Internal Revenue Service may be subject to “action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passport”.

So its tied into a transportation bill, which is classic. I’m sure that even if you owe less that $50,000 and are an undesirable, you’ll find yourself passportless, and put on some review list to be gotten to five years from now.

Obama’s brother Abongo gets special IRS treatment

Yes, nothing like the fruit falling right next to the tree. We are now just starting to learn about the Obama family clan. Abongo just turned up. Nice suprise with his scam foundation. What a family. Who knows next what we will find living and conniving in our great country. Don’t you just love checking out the Ancestry tree?  Of course, Zero knows nothing,  Turns out Abongo is a Kenyan National with a Social Security Number. The family sure loves our s.s. numbers don’t they?

Barack Obama’s half-brother Abongo Malik Obama, a Kenyan Natonal also known as “Roy” Obama has U.S. Social Security Numbe. How did that happen? click here for proof:  Scribed

We have Auntie dearest living large on our dime in a Housing project,

Zeituni Onyango:

President Obama’s African aunt has been granted asylum to stay in the United States, the Associated Press reports.

Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Mr. Obama’s late father, moved from Kenya to the United States in 2000. She first applied for asylum in 2002, citing violence in Kenya, according to the AP. Onyango’s request was rejected in 2004, but she stayed in the country, living in public housing in Boston

When it was reported in 2008 that Onyango was possibly in the country illegally, Mr. Obama said he had no knowledge of her status. Read more: CBS News

then we have Obama Onyango:

President Obama’s fugitive uncle slipped through the fingers of state and local authorities on multiple occasions in the 19 years between his deportation order and his arrest last week on a drunken driving charge in Framingham.

Obama Onyango renewed his Massachusetts driver’s license in person at least three times — in 1993, 1997 and 2002 — and may have done so in 2007, by which time online renewal was available, said Richard Nangle, spokesman for the state Registry of Motor Vehicles H/T:Boston Herald

Just in: Scott Brown says Uncle Omar Should be Deported: The Hill

Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested last Wednesday when he nearly rammed his SUV into a police car in Framingham, Mass. When asked if he would like to make a phone call, Onyango reportedly said, “I think I will call the White House

Now we have:

Abongo Malik Obama who is runing a scam foundation:

President Obama’s half-brother, who runs a foundation that collects funds in the United States, was able to get approval of a tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service in an unheard-of time period of only a month, records reveal.

Barack Obama’s half-brother Abongo Malik Obama, also known as “Roy” Obama, appears to have received the sudden IRS approval to operate as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization in only 30 days. The result was made retroactive for three years.

The Barack H. Obama Foundation, which runs out of a commercial mail drop in Arlington, Va., has solicited tax-deductible contributions on the Internet since 2008.

The Foundation’s guiding principle:

The common denominator in all that the Foundation undertakes is the inherent belief that no man can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers.

But it first submitted an application for its tax exemption in May and was granted the status in June, according to records.

The New York Post also reported that the foundation was not registered in Virginia  at the time the article was written in May, despite a Virginia legal requirement that an organization register before soliciting donations in that state.

“Since one of the Obama Foundation’s founders and directors, Mr. Alton R. Baysden, stated publicly in May 2011 that the foundation had not even applied for tax-exempt status, it is inconceivable that the IRS can now claim that the status was granted in June 2011, retroactive to 2008,” Ken Boehm, the head of the National Legal and Policy Center, told WND.

GuideStar.org, the private website that posts for public view IRS documents regarding nonprofit organizations, said for the Barack H. Obama Foundation no audited financial statements were available.
Read more: Influence of Obama’s brother Abongo felt in Washington WND

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IRS Awards $4.5M in Its Whistleblower Payout

First of many payouts by the IRS to have Americans turn on Americans. We posted several stories earlier, and if this is not to turn us into a Nazi-Gestapo universe I do not know what will. Yes, everyone should pay their taxes. But at what price?  Yes, Mr. Grassley, it will cause other people to squeal, but this is not Iowa. With thousands of pages in IRS Regs, many are subject to interpretation. Fix the Tax-code, then talk to me.

“It ought to encourage a lot of other people to squeal,” Sen. Charles Grassley told The Associated Press

An in-house accountant who raised a red flag about a tax lapse that his employer then ignored, leading him to tip off the IRS, has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.

The accountant’s tip netted the IRS $20 million in taxes and interest from the errant financial-services firm.  CNS News

Earlier Bunkerville Post: IRS to beef up whistleblower program turn your family boss in :

Unhappy with a family Member?   Had a bad day at the office? Now you can make them spin in the wind. Now the lawyers go into a feeding frenzy. Here you go:

After the law was enacted, the Miami-based Ferraro Law Firm, which had specialized in personal-injury cases involving cancers related to asbestos, opened a Washington office that recruits and represents clients making whistleblower claims. The firm has said it made several claims alleging more than $1 billion in unpaid taxes.  More Financial Advisor

The Internal Revenue Service, reversing an earlier position, proposed rules making it more likely informants will collect a reward when they blow the whistle on tax-dodging employers, neighbors or family members.

The agency proposed regulations today that make it easier for whistleblowers whose information results in denial of refunds or a reduction in deductible losses to get rewards of as much as 30% of the amount involved. Earlier guidance tied reward payments to a portion of additional taxes paid as a result an informant’s tip.

Earlier Bunkerville Post Obamacare hires bounty hunters to come after Doctors

This is the latest in intimidation by our government. If you wonder why so many physicians have threatened to quit their practice, here is the number one reason. Bounty Hunters. Looking for a missing “bullet point” in the documentation or an inaccurate digit in the billing code.  Best part, no legal redress of any dispute. Guilty as charged. Here tis:

Medicare’s billing codes are a complicated, convoluted mess and deciphering them can sometimes be more art than science. Both Republicans and Democrats huff and puff against “waste, fraud and abuse” in Medicare. And they have already enacted Stasi-style laws such as the False Claims Act offering nurses, patients and other whistleblowers 15 percent to 30 percent of any money recovered if they report improper billing practices by providers.

More chillingly, however, the administration is defining Medicare fraud down to include “unnecessary” and “ineffective” care. And to root this out, it plans to make expanded use of private mercenaries—officially called Recovery Audit Contracts—who will be authorized to go to doctors’ offices and rummage through patients’ records, matching them with billing claims to uncover illicit charges. What’s more, Obamacare increases the fine for billing errors from $11,000 per item to $50,000 without the government even having to prove intent to defraud.

There is nothing left but the coercive apparatus of the state to keep patients and doctors in line.

IRS Gives $33 Mil In Electric Car Credits to Prisoners

And the better news? The IRS  agents are going to take care of Obamacare as well. After all, there are doing such a good job now. And today we just learn that we are going to need 16,500 more agents. Is this crazy or what? This most effective department will turn Business and our lives into hell.

It reveals that the IRS granted the lucrative tax credit—worth up to $7,500—to gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles and even a bicycle. Among those who cheated Uncle Sam are jail inmates and even IRS employees.

And now to the prisoners riding high on our dime. Behind prison bars.

The government agency that’s showered prison inmates with millions in fraudulent tax refunds over the years has been cheated out of $33 million by thousands who “erroneously” claimed credits for alternative and plug-in electric vehicles.

In automatically granting the bogus tax credits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was simply following an aggressive Obama Administration plan to reward consumers that purchase the costly “advanced-technology” vehicles. The president is on a mission to get 1 million of the environmentally friendly cars on the road by 2015.

In the first six months of 2010 alone, 20% of such federal tax credits were “erroneous,” costing U.S. taxpayers more than $33 million. Details of this latest IRS gaffe are laid out in a report released this week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Maybe this will fix things with new agents.

New tax mandates and penalties included in Obamacare will cause the greatest expansion of the Internal Revenue Service since World War II, according to a release from Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas.

A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the ‘reconciliation’ bill being taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives this weekend. …

Scores of new federal mandates and fifteen different tax increases totaling $400 billion are imposed under the Democratic House bill.  In addition to more complicated tax returns, families and small businesses will be forced to reveal further tax information to the IRS, provide proof of ‘government approved’ health care and submit detailed sales information to comply with new excise taxes.

Americans for Tax Reform has a good breakdown of the bill by the numbers.

Washington Examiner: Read more here

IRS to beef up whistleblower program-turn your family, boss in!

Unhappy with a family member? Had a bad day at the office? Now you can make them spin in the wind. Now the lawyers go into a feeding frenzy. Here you go:

The Internal Revenue Service, reversing an earlier position, proposed rules making it more likely informants will collect a reward when they blow the whistle on tax-dodging employers, neighbors or family members.

The agency proposed regulations today that make it easier for whistleblowers whose information results in denial of refunds or a reduction in deductible losses to get rewards of as much as 30% of the amount involved. Earlier guidance tied reward payments to a portion of additional taxes paid as a result an informant’s tip.

Congress enhanced the IRS whistleblower program in 2006 to increase rewards and mandate the agency pay more of them. Under the law, whistleblowers may collect 15% to 30% of taxes collected as a result of the information they provided. Tips, many claiming cases of fraud involving more than $2 million, have poured in since.

The 2006 law spurred a legal industry built around submitting claims.

After the law was enacted, the Miami-based Ferraro Law Firm, which had specialized in personal-injury cases involving cancers related to asbestos, opened a Washington office that recruits and represents clients making whistleblower claims. The firm has said it made several claims alleging more than $1 billion in unpaid taxes.  More Financial Advisor

Tax Fairness Reaches a Tipping Point

 

Just who is going to pay for all of the new entitlements? Who will foot the bill for Obamacare?

Fiscal Policy: The latest data show a record number of people with no tax obligation. We also have the highest-earning  non taxpayers ever. With more riding the wagon and fewer pulling, it should soon break down.

There’s been a 59% increase in the number of non-taxpayers since 2000, growing from 32.6 million in 2000 to 51.6 million in 2008. In the same period, the total tax filers grew by only 10%.

Not only are fewer people paying any taxes, but also the income levels for these nonpayers have steadily risen. A family of four earning more than $50,000 can have no income tax liability after taking the standard deduction and the child tax credit.

The tax code was originally intended to raise sufficient revenues to pay for the essential functions of government. It has morphed into a tool for social engineering, to incentivize or even punish certain behavior, and even to redistribute wealth. That’s why we call it a “progressive” tax code.

A record number of the 142 million tax returns filed in 2008 resulted in no taxes owed, according to the Tax Foundation’s analysis of the latest IRS data. About 51.6 million returns, or 36.3%, were filed by those whose deductions, exemptions and tax credits wiped out any federal income-tax obligation. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527490

Just who is in favor of Obamacare?

Something struck me. The number of those who “like” Obama, those who would “like” obamacare and those who do not pay income taxes. Seems to hover around the same number.

Could it be that the 47 percent who do not pay income taxes, might find Obamacare to be another perk that the taxpayers could pony up for them?

In 2009, roughly 47% of households, or 71 million, will not owe any federal income tax, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

The vast majority of households making up to $30,000 fall into the category, as do nearly half of all households making between $30,000 and $40,000.

Nearly 22% of those making between $50,000 and $75,000 end up with no federal income tax liability or negative liability as do 9% of households with incomes between $75,000 and $100,000.

Experts say that to pay for all the things on the country’s growing tab, the money can’t just come from a shrunken pool of taxpayers.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/taxes/who_pays_taxes/index.htm

Plane Crash Suspect: “Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man… take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”

Of course the MSM will try and pin this on the Tea Party– how about his last lines thinking about  Capitalism  and Communism– sounds like he was a well rounded hater, and mental as well.

From Smoking Gun: Joe Stack leaves suicide note: Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man… take my pound of flesh and sleep well.” 

Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand”

“I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.” The manifesto, which you’ll find below, is dated “2/18/10″ and is signed “Joe Stack (1956-2010).” Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, has been identified as the man who flew a small plane into an Austin building housing IRS offices. The statement was uploaded to the front page of a web site that was registered in 2003 by a Joe Stack, who listed an address in San Marcos, Texas, which is about 35 miles south of Austin. The online posting is titled “Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man… take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”

Complete note from Smoking Gun

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/18/ntsb-plane-crash-into-austin-office-building-may-have-been-intentional/