Comments on: Feds plan 6,000 biz audits: What they’re looking for

By: Alert: Nationwide biz audit pushed back to February | BusinessBrief.com

Alert: Nationwide biz audit pushed back to February | BusinessBrief.com — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:01:38 +0000

[...] previously reported, the Internal Revenue Service was gearing up for the audits to uncover unpaid business and payroll [...]

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:24:21 +0000

There is far more money in controlling business avoidance of taxes than there ever will be in stamping out welfare fraud, and I am delighted at any initiative to ensure that corporations pay their fair share.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:19:46 +0000

How about the government audit and clean up all of the abuses in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, welfare, etc. FIRST, and then start these audits of private sector businesses?! That would make a lot more sense!!!

By: Ted Bean

Ted Bean — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:47:09 +0000

Have any of those who complain about our government ever been to other countries? People from every continent come here because of how fair and well-ordered our society is. And we pay less in taxes than other developed countries. People accept taking off their shoes in airports because it seems to make us safer. So do taxes. Look at the countries where the president-for-life is the richest person in the country. The attitude in those places is that if someone is making money, then the government is not stealing enough. Or where oligarchs assasinate their competitors and are protected by the state. Like somebody said, democracy is a very bad form of government, but the alternatives are much worse.

By: BonnieSue

BonnieSue — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:14 +0000

AMEN! Obama didn’t start this, it started long ago. Com’on folks, it’s not all candy, sometimes it’s got to be soup!

By: joe2

joe2 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:20:22 +0000

From the language I’m hearing, I am sure I am out of my league, however, I feel I must comment. 1st, “Heavenlycreature,” in most cultures one’s name says a lot about who one is. Your name does not match your dialogue; 2nd, we may not all be business owners, or work for government like Dan (Dan, I’m a fan) but we all know, and have known for decades that our government has been abusive and wasteful. To blame it on one administration (Obama) is cretainly not fair. The IRS is going after improper, and noncomforming practices of businesses. If businesses are conforming and operating properly, why fear. If there were not administrations like OSHA, and IRS we would be a people left to our own vises. What kind of country would we be???

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:34:33 +0000

One quite obvious answer to all the laxness in the tax collection is collecting it up front with a use tax. Then we would not need the IRS and it’s expensive buruacracy.

Terry

By: heavenlycreature

heavenlycreature — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:46 +0000

Dan,
It’s YOU and your ultra-patriotic, tax-loving brethren who make US sick!

Our Government is abusive and wasteful. And we all are made to fear and cower before the IRS.
I’m ashamed of you and your government-suckling ilk.

Go write a check.

By: MDV

MDV — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:01:04 +0000

We live in a time of highly emotional issues on all sides. I am not surprised at the language used here as it would indicate the depth of concern on all sides. I will say though that I have heard for years the liberal spin and it ain’t very nice. In my opinion the right spin is undergoing change while the left spin is becoming louder and ever more nasty toward those who disagree.
My comment on the IRS is that one year its hot button issues are different from the previous and/or next year. Of course Washington has a lot to do with that. Great if it does its job but consistency and even handedness in the interpretation of the law would be nice.

By: Dan L

Dan L — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:13 +0000

Kendall and LEU — I rest my case. I’ve been running my own successful small business for 30 years. Prior to that I worked in state and local government as a city planner — so I actually have some idea of how difficult it is for government to function.

The nasty and just plain ignorant nature of your posts simply proves my points. You make assumptions for which there is no support in fact. You assume that I supported the appointment of Tim Geithner — I don’t and never will — and that I’m a liberal — I’m a political moderate who is disappointed that the radical right has taken over the Republican Party leaving moderates no choice but to vote for Democrats in most elections.

You two illustrate the low level of political discourse — name calling and stereotyping — that the radical right has foisted on this nation. Unfortunately some on the left have joined your chorus. Hopefully the vast majority of Americans who are sick and tired of the way your minions have made a mockery of rational discourse will have the courage to call you on it. To sit back and do nothing would be a shame.

By: LEU

LEU — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:59:15 +0000

Dan – for what it’s worth – I don’t watch Fox (or any other news). You talk about tax cheats? What about the biggest one of all – Geithner – who admitted to it and is still running the department which collects taxes.

And if you are “sick and tired of the sort of posts” here – go read your Media Matters of Daily Kos and stay away. You wouldn’t know a business related fact if it hit you right between your rose-colored liberal glasses.

How’s that hope and change thing working for you?

By: kendall

kendall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:45:47 +0000

To Dan L……Perhaps your so tired of it because you’ve never run a small business or gone through an IRS audit!

And furthermore, if O’bongo wants to catch tax cheats, alll he has to do is look around him! My God he couldn’t find a dumocrat that paid taxes and wasted weeks trying to fill positions because of it!!..He appointed four crooks in a row and every one of them was a tax cheat!

I can tell you work for the gov’t and have never had to run a company in your life! nor will you ever!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:23:47 +0000

Welfare cheats = prosecution!

Tax cheats = ???

I don’t get it… Do we want a fair and just society, or not? I am sick of corporate welfare and corporate welfare through the back door (tax cheating). It is time that a modicum of scrutiny is applied to business, to ensure that they are paying their fair share.

By: Dan L

Dan L — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:54:30 +0000

I am so sick and tired of the sort of posts that heavenlycreature and LEU have placed here. Come on folks, how about some rational thought instead of just mouthing the unsubstantiated rants emanating from the fiction that Fox News broadcasts. What could possibly be wrong with the IRS enforcing the law and nailing tax cheating businesses? Then again, perhaps you think white collar crime is okay.

Sadly all too many businesses make it their business to mislead their customers and cheat on paying their fair share of taxes. Two of any government’s key roles is to cure these abuses of the privileges of our capitalist system and to cure the tax cheats who are not only cheating the government, but also cheating all the honest people and businesses that don’t cheat.

By: LEU

LEU — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:02 +0000

The IRS is also scheduled to be the healthcare police to enforce the mandatory purchase of Obamacare.

Change you can believe in – indeed.

By: heavenlycreature

heavenlycreature — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:01:32 +0000

The IRS is the grand theft department of the U.S. Government. Since the Obama administration is digging this country’s debt hole deeper and deeper, it’s up to the IRS to come up with money.

Expect more and more intrusive, invasive and draconian behavior from this reprehensible branch of government in the months and years to come.