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...format and main studio in Rosslyn, Va., are still under construction. But four network-credentialed anchors -- NBC's Bill Macatee and Robin Young and ABC's Edie Magnus and Kenneth Walker -- have been hired, and Friedman sounds confident that he has caught the next video wave. Says he: "This is television for the '90s." Gulp...
Lojeski's tale is just one of hundreds of horror stories that taxpayers can tell about the heavy-handed tactics of the Government's tax collectors. With the dreaded April 15 filing deadline approaching, Congress is considering bills that would ensure greater protection of taxpayers, including a measure sponsored by Senator David Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat, that has come to be known as the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights. While no one denies that the IRS should be tough on tax cheats, critics charge that the agency is often too quick to seize property, sometimes moves on the basis of flimsy...
Many enforcement actions are based on colossal blunders. One Texas taxpayer, who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of IRS retaliation, paid more than $22,000 in taxes for 1987 but fell a whopping 2 cents short of the proper amount. The IRS promptly sent him a bill for $400.31 in penalties. Reason: the agency levied the fine on his entire tax liability -- not just the missing 2 cents. The taxpayer is appealing the ruling...
...most notorious IRS foul-ups occurred last July, when the agency seized $70.76 in a bank account belonging to nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore. The Government was trying to collect part of a delinquent $21,182 bill owed by Carmin's grandfather Charles Fisher. Only after the case got nationwide attention did the IRS back down and return the money, saying it had mistakenly assumed that Carmin's grandmother, who was listed as guardian, owned the account...
Under Pryor's Senate bill, the IRS would have to notify taxpayers of their rights in writing before they were audited or questioned. Citizens would have the right to sue for damages if the IRS made an unreasonable collection. And before seizing taxpayers' property, the IRS would first have to send out a written notice and then wait 30 days. Another reform in the bill would give new authority to the ombudsman within the IRS to issue "taxpayers' assistance orders." These could help prevent the IRS from collecting taxes in ways that create substantial hardships for taxpayers...