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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Thu Feb 12, 2015, 02:22 PM Feb 2015

Thanks to Repubs' war on IRS...

By the Numvers:

Less than 50 percent: The chance you will get a live representative if you call the IRS this tax season.

$10.9 billion: The IRS budget this year.

$1 billion: How much has been cut from the IRS budget since its high-water mark in 2010.

13,000: The number of jobs the IRS has cut.

"You talk about waterboarding, this is waterboarding at its worst," Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during a hearing about reports of the agency abusing innocent small business and seizing their assets.

From The Hill

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Thanks to Repubs' war on IRS... (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP

Link?? eom BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #1

Did my chances to get audited go down? B2G Feb 2015 #2

Yep. But it's also slowed down issuing refunds and getting a live person BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #3

Defund, deem "inept", dismantle, aaaand PRIVATIZE! Hostile Takeover & its how the Oligarchy rolls.. misterhighwasted Feb 2015 #4

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)

1. Link?? eom

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2015, 02:25 PM

Feb 2015

B2G

(9,766 posts)

2. Did my chances to get audited go down?

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2015, 02:28 PM

Feb 2015

If so, good.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)

3. Yep. But it's also slowed down issuing refunds and getting a live person

Reply to B2G (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 12, 2015, 02:40 PM

Feb 2015

on the phone.

This Friday, it will be exactly 21 days since filing our taxes and still zilch. Everyone else I know has gotten theirs even though they filed a week to two weeks later than we have. Sucks.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

4. Defund, deem "inept", dismantle, aaaand PRIVATIZE! Hostile Takeover & its how the Oligarchy rolls..