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Polls show that the IRS is the most feared of
all agencies in the US.
It’s also the largest and most expensive. It’s larger than the CIA,
FBI, and DEA combined.
$3,500
= The amount one woman was forced to pay twice, even though the IRS
eventually admitted the debt had been owed – and paid – by her
former husband.
$210,260
= The amount the IRS tried to garnish from the wages of a woman for
the back taxes her husband had owed before their
marriage.
$26
= The amount the IRS seized from a 6-year-old's bank account because
her parents owed money.
$70,000
= The amount demanded by an IRS agent who was threatening to send a
couple to jail in a case that the tax court subsequently dismissed
because the IRS's claim "was not reasonable in fact or in
law."
$6,484,339
= The amount demanded by the IRS from the family of a victim of Pan
Am flight 103, based on the assumption of a future
settlement.
$900,000
= The amount a small businessman was fined after being entrapped by
his accountant, a paid informer for the IRS.
$5,300,000
= The amount the IRS paid its informants in
1993.
33,984,689
= The number of civil penalties assessed by the IRS in 1996.
10,000
= The number of properties seized by the IRS in
1996.
750,000
= The number of liens issued by the IRS against taxpayers in
1996.
2,100,000
= The number of IRS audits conducted in
1996. 
85
= The percentage of taxpayers selected by the IRS for random audits
who had incomes less than $25,000 (a lot of our sole proprietors
claiming high expenses).
3,253,000
= The number of times the IRS seized bank accounts or paychecks in
1992.
33,000,000
= The number of penalty notices the IRS sent out in 1994.
$46,806
= The amount of tax penalty imposed on one taxpayer in 1993 for an
alleged underpayment of 10 cents.
$155
= The amount of penalty imposed on a taxpayer in 1995 for an alleged
underpayment of 1 cent.
$14,000
= The amount allegedly owed by a daycare center that was raided by
armed agents, who then refused to release the children until parents
pledged to give the government money.
$3,000,000,000
= The dollar assets of Princeton/Newport, an investment company that
was forced into liquidation after 40 armed federal agents raided the
company on suspicion of tax evasion--only to have the IRS later
conclude that Princeton/Newport actually had overpaid its
taxes.
$10,000
= The fine imposed on one taxpayer for using a 12-pitch typewriter
to fill out his tax forms instead of a 10-pitch
typewriter.
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