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https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-statement-on-delay-in-processing-some-electronic-payments Even their notice is delayed

Does anyone or their clients use the mobile app IRS2Go to make payments?

According to the Federal News Network after this years layoffs/deferred resignation confusion, the new budget for the coming year proposes to hire 11,000 new call center employees in order to maintain current levels of phone service https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/nearly-25-of-irs-tech-workers-are-gone-forcing-agency-to-reset-and-reassess/ I really wonder, "Are there any adults in charge of this train wreck sliding downhill

The new commissioner is truly a reflection of our political system and our society

Don't forget the new administration plans to stop mailing refund checks September 30th and to stop accepting payments by check then or shortly thereafter.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3891.pdf

" The first nattional income tax in the United States was enacted in 1862 to help finance the war. It started as a 3% tax on incomes over $600 and 5% on incomes over $10,000. These rates were later increased, and the ceiling for the lower tax rate was lowered in 1864. " The Grant Administration repealed these taxes in 1872

"In 1867, William M. Springer refused to pay the federal taxes he owed, resulting in one of the first tax cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Before the matter went to the Supreme Court in 1874, how did the government collect the tax due?" In January 1867, after Springer refused to pay the $5,279.78 owed (including tax and penalty), the tax collector levied property in Springfield, Illinois, that Springer owned. The property was advertised and sold at public auction on March 15, 1867. The matter eventually landed in the U.S. Supreme Court (Springer v. U.S.), with Springer claiming that the tax was a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional, and that the seizure and sale of his property deprived him of his property without due process of law. The Supreme Court rejected both arguments and affirmed the federal government's power to levy and collect income taxes, including through the seizure and sale of property. "

Now my client's corporate refund for $1,015 showed up in their bank account 6 weeks late on May 27th with no explanation? Hopefully, they don't mail the check the IRS representative scheduled? I don't even know what to say

You just put your personal name on line 1 and your trade or business name on line 2,then on line 10 check . . . . "Banking purpose. Check this box if you're requesting an EIN for banking purposes only, and enter the banking purpose (for example, a bowling league for depositing dues or an investment club for dividend and interest reporting."

Yeah, I sympathize I use Drake and I do my own manual calculations and override the system calculations.

It smells like clickbait to me

How can you tell if the QR code you are using is legitimate or a scam?

That's funny since Al Capone was taken down partially due a forensic accounting investigation of his finances by a U S Treasury Agent.

Copied from Forbes: “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” — Winston Churchill “Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.” — Herman Wouk “I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money.” — Arthur Godfrey “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.” — G. Gordon Liddy “The taxpayer: that’s someone who works for the federal government, but doesn’t have to take a civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan “The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.” — Barry Goldwater “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” —Calvin Coolidge “This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” — Albert Einstein “The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” — Will Rogers “In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.” — Lyndon B. Johnson “Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?” — Peg Bracken I'm smiling but I don't feel any wealthier