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The Mission of the IRS is to provide America's taxpayers top
quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities
and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to
all.
IRS Forum examines the extent to which the IRS is meeting or
failing to achieve its Mission Statement. Members of IRS Forum will identify
instances in which the IRS is not helpful, where there is a lack of
integrity and lack of fairness and instances where consistent
treatment is not offered.
The IRS
Forum will:
- Provide a place
where taxpayers can educate themselves on the tax law, IRS procedures and IRS
practices;
- Identify IRS
misconduct, abuses of power; abuses of discretion; abuses of the law and IRS
administrative rules and to define and illustrate the extent to which the IRS is
not fulfilling its Congressional mandate;
- Provide members
with an opportunity to archive or disclose instances where the IRS does not meet
the objectives of its Mission Statement;
- Provide its
members with a place to interact with those having similar issues and
problems;
- Allow members to
discuss personal IRS experiences or the experiences of others in issue-oriented
chat rooms for specific collection, examination and appeal issues;
- Accumulate
problems and abuses for the attention of the Congress and the upper management
of the IRS. One abuse of a Notice of Tax Lien would go unnoticed and ignored,
but (e.g.) 2,000 actual documented cases will have an assured impact on the
Congress and the IRS;
- Collect proposed
legislative and administrative solutions for the attention of the public,
Congress and the IRS;
- Offer a place to
vent anger at the IRS in a safe and constructive manner;
- Offer Congressmen
and Senators a portal for their constituents to voice their IRS complaints and
problems and offer services to their constituents not provided by their
representatives;
- Provide
information that can be used to justify Tax Code reform of amendments resulting
from the problems surfaced in the IRS Forum; provide information to support
those interested in governmental reform, tax reform and specific tax legislation
proposed by both the Congress and tax lobbyists;
- To give lobbyists
and other an opportunity to get exposure for their "talking points" on any tax
legislative proposal;
- Publicize IRS
problems- all media and most taxpayers have a strong interest in the IRS. The
media has repeatedly been interested in abuses of the bureaucracy and abuses of
power. Most taxpayers have an IRS "story" or otherwise are concerned about a
possible IRS examination.
- To provide a
unique repository of IRS abuses and problems.
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