IRS HOLDING $20 BILLION IN 2021 TAX REFUNDS

Deep State Claims To Be Overworked-Should Americans Believe Them?

In August 2022 several of my friends mentioned that they had not yet received their 2021 tax refunds.  Say what?  As an attorney I dealt with clients and their tax issues for 30+ years.  I had never heard of this.  Unless there was a significant problem with the tax return, the taxpayer received his/her refund within 2 to 3 weeks.  As of November, 6.3 Million 2021 tax returns had not yet been processed. Based upon IRS’s own admission, they are sitting on $20 Billion of total past due refunds:

“The average refund for the 2022 filing season was $3,176 as of Oct. 28, the IRS reported, up nearly 14% from $2,791 in 2021.”

IS DEEP STATE BREAKING ANOTHER, ANOTHER, ANOTHER LAW?

Given that the Biden Administration has chosen which laws to ignore and which to enforce, and given that they choose WHO to target for prosecution (Conservatives) and WHO not to target (Liberals), I can’t help but wonder if THIS is intentional.  Do they plan to keep YOUR refund indefinitely? 

Could this possibly be an issue of too many returns and too few IRS employees? I don’t think so!  Have the IRS employees been re-assigned to other duties?  Processing illegal aliens?  Investigating & prosecuting Christians and Conservatives?  Perhaps they have been cross-trained to act as prison guards at DC’s political prison holding Trump supporters. 

AS A LONG-SUFFERING TAXPAYER, WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

Make sure you don’t have a tax refund coming.  Cut back on your paycheck withholdings and/or reduce your estimated tax payments.

If your CPA has given you a figure that you should pay in estimated taxes each quarter, IGNORE HIM.  Or, mail in half the amount each quarter to make sure the IRS will NOT owe you a refund at tax filing time. 

If you are a W-2 employee, contact your HR department and change the amount that is withheld from your paycheck each pay period.  You may not be allowed to reduce your withholdings because the greedy parasites, AKA Swamp Bureaucrats, tightened the withholding rules some years ago.  But it is worth a try.  It is too late to affect your 2022 tax returns, but it may prevent you from being forced to fight for your refund for tax year 2023.  If you are lucky, you will OWE taxes for 2023!

Already sent in three quarterly payments for 2022?  Don’t mail in the fourth estimated payment, which is due in January.  With any luck, you will NOT have a refund coming.  Good luck and Happy New Year!!!

ARMED IRS AGENTS: WILL THEY SHOOT GRANDMA BECAUSE SHE MADE AN ERROR ON HER TAX RETURN?

One more tip: keep a copy of all your cancelled checks indefinitely.  You are never out of the woods with the IRS.  Under the Biden Regime it appears the IRS has come up with a new way to scare money out of taxpayers: send out notices for tax years that are long past without an accounting, demanding money that isn’t owed.  When the taxpayer asks for a tax transcript, IRS won’t provide it.  These are modest amounts so most will pay even if they know they don’t owe it.  Even before the IRS carried guns, their stock in trade was fear.