Chapter 799 IRS (1)

Less than a second after Yang Sen's ruthless words were finished, the face-slapping text message arrived as planned. The text message was from Riz Khan, and the content was, "The IRS special investigator came to the door."

Don’t look at other things, the three letters of IRS alone are enough to make people frightened. Don’t feel exaggerated. In the United States, if there is a department that is more troublesome than F~B~I, it is definitely not N~S~A or C ~I~A, but the IRS, which is the US Federal Taxation Service.

This special department under the U.S. Department of the Treasury is the key agency responsible for taxation of the U.S. federal government. It was established in 1862. The IRS has only two designated positions: the director and the chief adviser. They need to be nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the Senate to be formal "On the job", of course, in order to check and balance the power of the director, the IRS also has a 9-person supervisory committee to ensure that every taxpayer is treated fairly. Although the IRS headquarters is in Washington, DC, most of the audit work is in the local office.

Why is it that Lao Mei is not afraid of anything, but only when facing the IRS, does she feel fearful?

Its huge army of employees is a very important reason. To some extent, the IRS can be said to be the largest bureaucratic organization in the United States, employing more than 110,000 people, and it holds the social security numbers and bank accounts of Americans. There are as many as 40,000 personnel in the inspection operation, and they are almost pervasive. You must know that if you add all the operatives and clerks of the two major intelligence agencies, F~B~I and C~I~A, there are not as many people as the IRS. .

Therefore, there has always been a saying in the United States called "Don't mess with the IRS." It can be seen that the deterrent power of the IRS is far greater than that of the CIA and the Ministry of Defense. As for how powerful it is, it can also be described in one sentence. It is a group of "civilian officials" who can be equipped with guns and arrest people!

There are people in this world who are frightened, stunned, and desperate, but there is one kind of people that everyone is afraid of, and that is educated hooligans. The IRS group of people are obviously a group of hooligans standing at the top of the pyramid!

In the United States, the ordinary day of April 15th is an out-and-out "big day". This day is the tax deadline stipulated by the US federal law. Thousands of Americans have to report to the IRS on this day. Come to a battle of wits, of course, the final winner is probably the IRS.

Before April 15th, Americans have to submit a material to the IRS local department, show their own income certificate, and fill out the form for IRS personnel to review, because bank accounts and credit cards are registered with social security numbers, so Once tax evasion occurs, the IRS is fully capable of finding out.

The biggest privilege of the IRS is that it can freeze property without a court trial, so if you don’t want to be targeted by the IRS, no matter what source of income, even if it is illegal income, you must report taxes. Two things that Americans cannot avoid in their lives are death. and pay taxes!

Don't take chances. The United States is a "ten thousand tax country", and personal income tax is collected according to income levels.

The minimum federal tax rate is 10 percent of income, with a maximum of 35 percent, usually deducted directly from the payroll.

Even the emerging e-commerce, the IRS will never ignore it. If you only sell items online without physical stores, sales tax can basically be exempted.

But as long as the website generates income for you, you still have to pay federal income tax.

In Hollywood blockbusters or popular American dramas, JC often says to suspects, "You have the right to remain silent", but when it comes to tax issues, if you evade taxes, you have no right to remain silent.

In the United States, no one is afraid of the government or the police, but it is different when it comes to the IRS. The reputation of this department was widely recognized by Americans as early as the 1930s, because the IRS brought down a company The gang leader Alkavon, who was helpless from B~I, also made the IRS "famous in the first battle" with this case.

In 1920, Alcavon was still a small gangster at the time, but through many street wars, his status in the Chicago gangs gradually rose. At the age of 26, he became a gangster leader, controlling Chicago's huge underground crime with an iron fist It is said that he personally killed more than a hundred people. The Chicago ZF has always wanted to disintegrate his "gangster empire", but it has never been successful. F~B~I have been unable to find direct evidence of IRS crimes. , had to seek help from the IRS.

The IRS immediately took action. According to the investigation, Kafun acquired most of Chicago’s gambling, brothel, drinking and other industries and made excess profits. In 1927, he allegedly owned $100 million, but Kafon never had a He opened a bank account in his own name, signed a check only once in his life, and used cash for almost everything he did.

Three IRS agents once said bluntly to their superiors that "Kafen is very shrewd, and this case is undoubtedly the most difficult situation to handle." But they didn't give up, and they made bold promises to crucify this gangster within three years.

In order to complete the task, the IRS began to closely track Kafen's income and business, and at the same time, tried to persuade some witnesses to testify.

In a casino in Illinois, a casino clerk mentioned that Kavon's men had an exquisite cloth-bound book in which every income and expenditure was recorded.

There are also some records showing that Kafen and his gang made some local bribery transactions: some records from 1925 to 1926 show that in this series of operations, "local officials" received 20% of the benefits, and Kafen's benefits were doubled , about $250,000.

After 3 years of investigation, in 1931, relying on the pieced together evidence, Kafen was prosecuted for tax evasion. The IRS finally sent Kafen to the federal prison, where he was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and his criminal group was wiped out. face), the IRS is so pissy.

If you think this is an exception, the gang boss is too far away from you, and the IRS will not fight you for a few dollars, then you are very wrong.

Murata, who immigrated from RB to the United States as a dentist, only reported an annual income of more than 400,000 US dollars, while the annual income of most American dentists exceeded 1 million US dollars. This aroused the suspicion of the IRS, so they did not hesitate. Investigate.

The IRS sent agents to Murata's clinic to investigate and observe for more than a month. According to preliminary calculations, Murata's monthly income should be around 150,000 US dollars.

This was very different from the number he declared, so the IRS found the patients to copy their fee invoices one by one through the recorded car plate numbers of the dental patients.

It turns out that many people only pay in cash, because they can save about 10% of the consultation fee, and of course, they can't get a receipt.

After obtaining relevant evidence of Murata's tax evasion, a large number of JC and IRS inspectors came to Murata's mansion worth more than two million dollars, and issued an arrest and search warrant for Murata.

JC then conducted a careful search of Murata's home, but found nothing. The IRS did not believe it, and immediately dispatched its own investigators. These investigators were better equipped than JC, and finally found a secret room in the wall. Nearly a million dollars in cash were recovered.

Three months later, Murata was sentenced to three years in prison for nine crimes including tax evasion, tax evasion, and fraud. bail.

It is precisely because they pay every penny of taxation that their reputation in the country has not been very good. Some people even openly question the necessity of the existence of the IRS, thinking that the IRS is spending taxpayers’ money, but doing harm to taxpayers. interests should be banned.

Of course, this man’s original intentions were good, but he didn’t expect to bring disaster on himself. Not long after he uttered his voice, the IRS commissioner investigated all his money-related matters from childhood to adulthood. In the end, it was discovered that he had evaded a sum of thousands of dollars in taxes, and the IRS would not let the tax evasion evidence sent to his door easily. They ignored his complaints and sent him to 3 years in prison. Naturally, a fine cannot be missed.

This also proves from the side how "prestige" the IRS is, so that people in the IRS dare not say the department they work for at parties, for fear of being kept at a respectful distance.

A former IRS tax collector once said that as an IRS agent, you must have a strong nerve.

By the way, when this female tax collector was applying for the job, the interviewer reminded her that sometimes this job had to do some "not decent things", and asked her a few questions, such as "Can you deduct A bankrupt's car? Is it possible to put up a foreclosure notice on a poor family? Is it possible to face an angry citizen holding a gun?"

The above problems are all practical problems that the IRS tax collectors need to face, so there is a reason why they are not welcomed by Americans. From the boss down to the slums, beggars in poor clothes cannot escape the clutches of the IRS.

A couple in California, USA, found more than 1,400 gold coins buried in the ground while walking their dogs near their home. According to the US tax law, the IRS will deduct taxes from the "unowned buried objects" identified by the tax law, and take about half of the value of the tax. .

It has been almost 5 years since Michael Jackson, the great American pop star, died suddenly, but the IRS is still relentlessly chasing money. The executor of Jackson’s estate declared that when he died, his net worth was only 7 million US dollars (this figure Not to mention the IRS, ordinary people don’t believe it), but the IRS determined that its actual assets were worth 1.125 billion U.S. dollars, not only should it pay 505 million U.S. dollars in taxes, but also an additional 197 million U.S. dollars in fines, totaling more than 702 million U.S. dollars. Co-author Jackson is busy For a lifetime, it is equivalent to working a long-term job for the IRS?

There are Jackson fans complaining about their idols, but they are nothing. They are just doing nothing. The IRS is determined to track down a tax, and it has not failed so far. The poor without money are just fine. ZF MPs are the IRS's favorite "dish on the plate". The "tax issue" was pulled down by the IRS, and he missed the coveted power position, and also put a black hat on Aoguanhai.

But did the IRS get retaliated in the end? No, Comrade Guan Hai also personally sent an impartial official to the position of IRS director. Then again, he wanted to cover up his own people, but unfortunately the eyes of the masses are discerning, and designing his own taxation can naturally be confused. It's best not to investigate, but when it comes to others, it's best to be fair and just, and we will never allow favoritism.

Perhaps it is precisely because of such human nature that the long-term power of the IRS has been caused.