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Let’s Assume

First off, I need everyone to know that my father worked many, many years for the IRS. He took public transportation to downtown Chicago every day, rain or shine, winter or summer, and I do not recall him ever missing a day of work. I am not anti-IRS, but rather I am pro-reality.

With that as a prelude, let’s assume that I am hired as one of the newly hired 87,000 IRS agents with the largesse provided by the $80 billion allocated to the IRS in the “Inflation Reduction Act.” (I am assuming that you are familiar with the “Inflation Reduction Act” passed by Congressional Democrats that will not actually reduce inflation.)

Anyway, let’s assume that the all knowing IRS puts me in an office, and giving the IRS the benefit of the doubt, my initial job description involves “answering phones” and “providing much needed information to bewildered taxpayers.” Now as we all are well aware probably 90% of telephone calls to the IRS come during the months of March and early April when Joe-taxpayer is struggling with trying to get his 1040 filled out. Granted I will probably be very busy during that time frame, but once April has come and gone, the high liklihood is that there will not be many phone calls or consumer questions to answer. Let’s assume that I will then attempt to look busy, and while  this may work for a while, the IRS is not going to pay me for basically doing nothing. Let’s then assume that my boss says something like, “Get to work! Find something to do! Make yourself useful! The government is not going to continue to pay you to just sit and wait for the phone to ring.” I know that he is right, and so what do I do? … very simply, I then begin to make myself useful by going over (PC words for ‘auditing’) some Joe-taxpayer returns. Since those on the upper floors are going over (auditing) the returns of the high income clients, let’s assume that by necessity I then am relegated to be a “bottom feeder” – auditing small businesses and those making less than $400,000 per year. I may not be thrilled about auditing these folks, as this is not what was sold to the public or to me … but a job is a job, and the IRS has good benefits, vacation, etc. Furthermore, if I am able to identify and corral some of these “bottom feeders,” I assume that some day I will move up to one of the upper floors.

8/17/22

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