USA is an empire based on the strongest military in the world. Of course DoD has green light for everything. Or you believe that european countries/japan follow the american interests against their own for good will?
May I introduce you to our lemmy instance? Sending over $600 without the IRS feeling up on you, lol.
I don’t condone tax evasion, but I do oppose mass surveillance and firmly believe “innocent until proven guilty”. The biggest tax evaders are large corpos and megachurches anyway.
Thank you. I keep seeing memes like this but have never heard of anyone I know actually getting audited. I only got audited once when I completely forgot to include the income from a place I worked for a couple weeks, which is fair (and probably automated on their end considering they would’ve sent their withholding information to the IRS anyways)
That is for businesses, Cash app PayPal venmo etc,to report to the IRS that you had this source of income. 1099k has to deal with Internet transactions. This is absolutely for personal accounts.
I get the intent here, but it’s a really bad comparison. It’s certainly easy to get confused about without base level awareness of finance and accounting things.
The DoD is a government cost center. It doesn’t generate revenue. Therefore nothing to tax. Meaning nothing for the IRS to audit.
That’s why the federal government has other audit authorities and often contracts independent auditors to help. Those people are auditing department spending and assets related though. This type of audit is not to check if taxes are owed. It’s more like making sure the department bank account is correct to keep this simple.
I also want to add that many landlords were beginning to demand that their tenants pay with venmo, or other e-payment services, and those leeches need to pay their taxes.
Which the IRS has acted on, and most these platforms have to send documents to the IRS for anyone that crosses a certain threshold. They are going to have to prove it isn’t income or claim it.
I found this article on the audit. It’s also about boring but necessary things like stockpile management, automation, climate risk, and bookkeeping. It’s broken into 30 sub-audits. It sounds like all of these must be fully passed as “clean” for an audit to not be considered failing.
And in some cases they’ve found more. The miss numbers being thrown around are typically aggregate of all overage and underage combined. That way all errors are highlighted and the overages don’t net out some underages.
The other funny thing is how it’s fucking Russia. These audits are partially why old assets were depreciated even further. Which freed up more “spending” for Ukraine.
I’m even old enough to remember Republicans started this whole thing as a gotcha to Clinton. It was so they could prove with all the departments being audited that taxes could be cut. Then the only department that got a pass was DoD. Right when Bush came in. And they then kicked that can a few more times until Obama was President. Then it was suddenly a big deal to Republicans again for DoD to finally start doing audits.
Mostly yes. The Newt Gingrich lead house Republicans wanted to do anything they could to make Clinton look bad. Somewhere around 97 these audits started across all federal offices. Point being to “prove” waste was happening and taxes for rich people could be cut. Dems went along with it because it’s not actually a bad idea. But right out of the gate the Republicans made sure DoD was given a pass.
The IRS can audit the ultra wealthy exclusively and it still wont really change how fucked taxes are in the US. The tax brackets are a fucking wreck, capital gains is a joke, and estate tax is basically non existent.
It’s like cheering for Biden for really sticking it to those rich folk when he’s just checking their couch for quarters.
That’s what I am saying, this is nothing and we shouldn’t be celebrating nothing. It’s not like they fixed the Trump admin’s tax changes, it’s not like they’re taxing the wealthy more.
To do more than nothing takes an act of Congress and they’re not doing anything, they’re doing nothing. This is the legal equivalent of 4th grade graduation ceremonies.
We really just need a corporate revenue tax. Any other method of taxing the ultra wealthy will be abused so that the ultra wealthy are the only ones not paying it
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