Comment by saghm

4 days ago

> The IRS, for a time, would cut off your call if their wait system was too busy. That's a critical system in kafkaesque hellscape.

Now you're just on hold indefinitely, and eventually the offices will close, so you can either hang up and wake up early to call or just stay on hold overnight maybe? I had to call them for something back in March, and even waking up and calling at like 7:01 AM (a minute after their phone lines opened) I was on hold for half an hour.

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pstuart  4 days ago

They've been underfunded so regular taxpayers will hate them more and supposedly support removing income taxes, and to starve them of auditors who can go after wealthy tax cheats.

https://taxlawcenter.org/blog/the-bipartisan-budget-deal-rew...

https://verdict.justia.com/2015/04/23/the-republicans-cynica...

  • saghm  3 days ago

    Oh, I don't disagree with you. I'm pretty far left-wing and in general think that people with at least as much money as me should be paying high taxes. I would be in favor of higher taxes for wealthy people (which I realistically am included in, even if I'm not making millions of dollars or anything) and putting some of that towards funding for the IRS.

  • platevoltage  3 days ago

    Yep. Marjorie Taylor Green was one of the main people who pushed this lie, and now the media is trying to rehabilitate her.

  • spiderice  3 days ago

    Less assholes to audit and fine me over stupid bullshit. Let them be underfunded.

    • xmprt  3 days ago

      If you're like most Americans and pay taxes on time then there's absolutely no reason to be audited. The two possibilities are:

      1. You are taking a lot of special deductions and not providing all the required documentation.

      2. Or you're not reporting things accurately because there's some edge case in the tax code that you didn't understand but is easy for the IRS to catch (eg. sales of stock without cost basis reported).

      Simplifying the tax code and funding the IRS more solves both of those because then they can focus on the real whales who are abusing the tax code the most.

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    • lincon127  2 days ago

      Fewer*

      Also, unless you're advocating for the complete dissolution of the US, that's a nonsensical take.

what  3 days ago

I’ve never had a problem calling the IRS, the wait wasn’t that long and they were quite helpful. This is within the last two years.