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If the IRS has done something despicably nasty to you, like filing a bogus
tax lien and smearing your credit, forget getting help from the taxpayer's
advocate ---- she doesn't answer at the number they give for her. She's
not into advocacy.
Hey, don't take my word for it.
Call Jackie Bracey, the official tax advocate for WNC, at 336-378-2059 and
see if she will answer. $100 to a nickel says she's out shopping during
business hours, at the
liquor store getting stocked up for the weekend, or having coffee somewhere,
while she draws her fat salary provided by you, the taxpayers.
Now, having struck out with Congress's official white knight appointed to
address IRS abuses, try your Senator. First thing you're put on hold for
ten minutes, then
(you guessed it) given Jackie Bracey's number. When you tell the
harried-sounding lady at the Senator's office you rang that number about 25
rings and no answer, she will put you on hold again. You hold for another
16 minutes, then give up and call your congressman's office.
The Congressman's office has a thing for this elusive Jackie Bracey too.
Again you are
shoved off into the Jackie Bracey black hole with that number where there is
no answer, no matter how many times you let it ring. I have memorized the
frigging thing. Is your Congressman there to help? Probably not. Maybe
his vote against the abuses of the IRS was just for show.
Finally by dialing the 1040 number you might get to talk to an IRS agent in
Indiana or New York or
Florida or some far-off place. A recorded message at my local office says
these agents are warm and friendly. LOL! What a laugh. Whether man or
woman the agent
will interrupt, shout, and be brusque and hurl a battery of irrelevant
questions at you, trying to get you to admit to something, like a wife you
never had, trying to find out if you filed last year and for how much,
trying to get your current address, phone number, demanding the identity of
your bank account, wanting to know the name of your employer ---
anything, just ANYTHING, other than answering any questions or helping you
remove someone else's lien against you which has smeared your credit.
Every prospective employer or creditor will see this undeserved strike
against you and condemn you for it --- just before he tells you he has no
employment for you, or no money to lend.
One particularly abrasive IRS agent I talked to, who said she was in
Indiana, asked all the prying questions above, she said, in order to
establish my identity, plus how much money did I have in the bank and where.
When I asked her what was the purpose of these questions and why my social
security number, my old addresses, and my date of birth were not sufficient
to establish my identity, she yelled that I was being uncooperative and hung
up. Talk about lying scumbag feds! If you lie to them you'll be
indicted, but they have a license to lie to you. Or file bogus tax liens
against you.
But hey, folks, this is the USA, folks, land of the free, land of the happy,
the brave, the
employed, the successful, the fulfilled, the prosperous and free!
[bull#@($]
Oh, and did I tell you that not one damned agent wants you to know his or
her identifying number? She will rattle it off so fast in such a
purposefully unintelligible mumble that
you must ask to have it repeated. While you are writing down a long string
of digits the agent is snapping questions and hissing at you to distract
you.
Now go to the clerk's office and look yourself up on the computer to see
what civil actions, judgments, liens, and lis pendens may be filed against
you. There may
be none indexed against you there --- there were none against me. Yet the
IRS has placed a lien against my credit, fouling my chances for employment
and blighting my dealings with my bank. They can do it to you too.
Congress says it reined them in. They didn't.
OH, and those three big scumbag bastions they call credit agencies, like
Equifax and Experian? They keep dossiers on you, which may well be
libelous but you have to pay them folding money in order to see and correct
them. New
day, folks, brave new world where the corporations rule all of America and
have smeared the halls of Congress with their spoor and carry the
sallow-faced congressmen in their pockets.
And there's not a goddamned thing you can do about your very real problem
with the IRS but something very unconventional. Well, I guess you could do
like Job's friends recommended and curse God and die. Congress didn't rein
in the slimy sonsa#@&@
es of the IRS. They're very much alive and very
much at their dirty work.
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