Rachel Porcaro knows she's hardly rich. When you're a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don't need government experts to tell you how broke you are.
But that's what happened. The government not only told Porcaro she was poor. They said she was too poor to make it in Seattle.
It all started a year ago, when Porcaro, a 32-year-old mom with two boys, was summoned to the Seattle office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She had been flagged for an audit.
She couldn't believe it. She made $18,992 the previous year cutting hair at Supercuts. A few hundred of that she spent to have her taxes prepared by H&R Block.
"I asked the IRS lady straight upfront — 'I don't have anything, why are you auditing me?' " Porcaro recalled. "I said, 'Why me, when I don't own a home, a business, a car?' "
The answer stunned both Porcaro and the private tax specialist her dad had gotten to help her.
"They showed us a spreadsheet of incomes in the Seattle area," says Dante Driver, an accountant at Seattle's G.A. Michael and Co. "The auditor said, 'You made eighteen thousand, and our data show a family of three needs at least thirty-six thousand to get by in Seattle."
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When I started my company in the early 90s I had to eat potatoes and Top Ramen to get by. Barely broke even and then was audited. Same reason. The IRS wants their cut and needs to verify if there are not getting it that you are starving.
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Yeah and Turbo Timmy Geithner can sign a note promising he understand what he was paid was income and promising to pay taxes on it and then not pay taxes on it and still get appointed to head the department that oversees the irs.
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but no audit of the criminal fed or the biggest corporations that skip out on billions in taxes, what a joke this country has become.
ReplyDeleteThere should be a list online of every jerkoff civil servant that ever pissed anyone off so we will know who to hang when the revolution comes.
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ReplyDeleteWell said.
I'll add that I completely believe that if everyone in this country understood how badly we (U.S. taxpayers) were bent over during the past year by, for example, the banks, the S would HTF tomorrow, as mass rioting would break out.
That being said, the clock is ticking, as people ARE wising up...slowly...
Sadly, the gov does NOTHING to improve the condition of this single mom with two kids -
ReplyDeleteShe is merely defenseless vicitim ...
What is this family :
Fodder for yet another Goldman Sachs scam ?
When all else fails, pick on the little people!
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