In an astonishing power grab, the Internal Revenue Service wants to license all who prepare returns for taxpayers. This means that Uncle Oscar couldn’t help his nephew prepare his income tax return unless a Washington bureaucrat grants a license.
H&R Block and the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP) are supporting the effort by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman for selfish reasons: If Uncle Oscar can’t help, his nephew must pay a “licensed” preparer.
Shulman said in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee that he expects to make his recommendations to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama by the end of the year.
Shulman argued that licensing is needed because of bad guy tax preparers. Of the millions of tax returns filed over the last three years, only about 350 preparers were convicted of fraud, according to the IRS’s own records.
Ryan Ellis, tax policy director at Americans for Tax Reform, challenged IRS claims that licensing would generate significant funds from “tax cheats.” He told the Washington Times, “If the IRS thinks that licensing tax preparers will raise a lot of money, it won’t.”
Shulman’s recommendations “could focus on a new model for the regulation of tax return preparers; education and training of return preparers; and enforcement related to return preparer misconduct,” the IRS said.
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“Education” and “training”? Many times over the years, newspapers have sent male and female reporters, posing as married couples, to IRS offices for “help” with their returns. They would offer simple situations: two kids and a mortgage. In an overwhelming majority of cases, four different IRS “professionals” would prepare their returns in four different ways.
Shulman said 87 percent of taxpayers now use computer software or paid preparers. “Tax preparers and the associated industry can help us increase compliance and strengthen the integrity of the tax system,” Shulman said. On the subject of “integrity,” he failed to mention David Rockefeller and other billionaires who pay no income tax at all by ducking their obligations with the help of high-priced “preparers.”
The first step in the licensing process, the IRS said, will involve fact-finding
and receiving input from unlicensed tax preparers and software vendors, as well as those who are licensed by state and federal authorities, including enrolled agents, lawyers and accountants.
“H&R Block strongly supports the IRS initiative announced by Commissioner Doug Shulman to review comprehensively alternatives for improving the accuracy of tax filings and the ethics and integrity of all who hold themselves out directly or indirectly in providing tax preparation services,” said Chairman Richard Breeden.
“We are all in favor of raising the bar,” said NATP’s Paul Cinquemani. “If people are operating out there without continuing education, they are on dangerous ground.”
June 25th, 2009 at 3:53 am
How about we just stop filing then you hogs? The elitist scum bags need to be rounded up.
blobfromslob Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 2:59 am
I dont think the IRS is going to matter.. That bailout has sealed the fate of the USA it’s just a matter of time when it hits our pocket books we wont be able to pay and blood will soak the streets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page hyperinflation is coming
ET and sasquatch rule planet earth Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 3:41 am
troops on our streets?? you decide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhiQpnbeiQ
June 25th, 2009 at 4:28 am
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This is a simple way to save a lot of money (book costs about $25) and quit feeding the gov’mint. I have not paid income taxes in many years. Why? I’m not required to and I know how to safely avoid paying them. GET THE BOOK.
pljforall Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 9:23 am
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marv ericson Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 5:49 am
asshole you wrote something about aig acouple of days ago but I can’t find it. could you tell me what posting it was on
asshole Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Friday, April 3, 2009
The real story of AIG
AIG has been in the news a lot these days. At the beginning of the AIG saga the Fed said it was too big to allow it to fail and so billions were given to “save” the company. Of course this failed and still more money was thrown their way. When it was “discovered” that AIG had contractual obligations to give serious bonuses to key employees, congress was irate. Even after it became known that a Democrat, Senator Chris Dodd, inserted a provision in the Stimulus bill to protect these bonuses at the request of the Treasury Department, the jackals that passed, but didn’t read, the bill were still furious.
With all the attention given to AIG I think it is interesting to learn a little more about the company.
First of all, some may be surprised to learn that AIG is a subsidiary of American International Corporation (AIC) and the parent has a most interesting history. AIC has succeeded in remaining invisible and does that by relying on secrecy because that’s how its founders liked it. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., of Robber Baron fame, started the company in 1910. Other Barons of industry joined John D.; Andrew Mellon, J.P. Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie. Other American industrialists and bankers also joined the AIC venture. The reason such an illustrious group of giants came together was that knew the financial clout they could exert together would bring them even more wealth, but more importantly, power; at a time when there were few government restrictions interfering with business.
Rockefeller, the oil man, knew that Russia would become of major importance because of the discovery of oil in Baku near the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan. The oil field was the largest known oil strike in the world at the time. However, the Baku oil field was controlled entirely by the Swiss munitions manufacturers Alfred and Robert Nobel and Tsar Nicholas II’s banker, Baron Alphonse Rothschild, who had gotten there earlier. As early as 1884 Rothschild and Nobel were pumping as much oil from the Baku Oil Fields as Rockefeller was from all of his holdings in the United States and Rockefeller wanted to get in on the action. By 1870 Rockefeller’s Standard Oil controlled 85% of the refining and distribution of oil in the entire world but by 1880 he lost most of his distribution rights in Europe to Rothschild.
In order to succeed in Russia Rockefeller realized the Tsar had to go.
Rockefeller, Morgan, Mellon and their banker friends were already well on their way to creating a central federal bank owned by them and getting the US to enact a national income tax to repay what the United States would soon owe to that privately-owned central bank. Taking over Russian oil was something else.
The Rockefeller group of business giants met in New York with Bolshevik Leon Trotsky between 1907 and 1910. Rockefeller, his banker friends, Mellon and Morgan, and steel man Andrew Carnegie, along with others of equal rank in the business world pooled their resources and put up $50 million to form the American International Corporation, AIC, which they announced was created to stimulate world trade. However the real purpose was to get the Bolsheviks to overthrow Tsar Nicholas II. They made a deal with Trotsky and his partner in crime Vladimir Ulyanov, whom the world would get to know as Lenin. In exchange for financing the Bolshevik Revolution Rockefeller and his robber Baron friends would be allowed to take over the Russian oil fields. But what actually happened is that Trotsky and Lenin double crossed AIC after they helped topple the Tsar.
It is an unfortunate reality that but for the interference of the Robber Barons the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would not have succeeded. With the help of Rockefeller and his equally greedy merry men the Tsar was overthrown. To cement their power the Bolsheviks shot and killed the Tsar and his family enabling the well-financed Bolsheviks to depose the Romanov dynasty.
After this bit of history it may be asked who, or what, exactly, is American International Corporation? Jon Christian Ryter has written:
“AIC is one of the two largest corporations ever formed. The other is Standard Oil, which was broken apart by US District Court Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis on August 3, 1907. At 4 p.m. on May 15, 1911, the US Supreme Court upheld the Landis judgment, and what was one behemoth oil giant became seven behemoth oil giants—with the Rockefeller family as the primary shareholders in all of them (otherwise known as ‘the seven sisters’). The government would ultimately learn from its Standard Oil mistake because when the Reagan-era Supreme Court broke up Ma Bell, AT&T was forced to sell-off the breakaway companies.”
AIC personnel comprised executives brought into the company who were trusted associates from each partner’s own commercial ventures. Rockefeller, Mellon, Morgan and Carnegie masterminded the creation of AIC and built the corporation similar to Standard Oil with secrecy layers that made it very difficult to be scrutinized.
Among those brought into AIC was Frank Vanderlip from Rockefeller’s National City Bank, one of the seven people who would not only help write the Federal Reserve Act legislation, but he would also be instrumental in getting congress to enact the 16th Amendment* by promising them fame and fortune, or threatening them with failure if they didn’t go along. Vanderlip was on the board of AIC along with such luminaries who served at various points of time throughout AIC’s century-old life, like Thomas Vail, CEO of AT&T, Percy Rockefeller (one of John D.’s brothers), James A. Stillman (a Rockefeller in-law), Pierre DuPont, and George H. Walker, maternal grandfather of George H.W. Bush.
At one point Robert S. Lovett joined the board and became a key advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Lovett advocated ignoring the 2nd Amendment and disarming the American people as the first step in creating global government.
“Other founding directors included manufacturer Cyrus McCormick; railroad executive James J. Hill; Edwin S. Webster (Stone’s partner); investment banker Otto Kahn, meat-packer Ogden Armour; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Taft, Beekman Winthrop; Henry Smith Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Corporation; and Joseph P. Grace, then a Standard Oil chemist. He developed petrochemical products from crude oil. Also, banker Charles H. Sabin; W.E. Corey, head of US Steel; James Cash Penney, founder of J.C. Penney; and Charles A. Coffin, who replaced Thomas Edison as CEO of General Electric.” (Jon Christian Ryter)
“In 1918, Forbes published his first list of the 30 richest America. Heading the list were the invisible rich whose wealth is never supposed to be mentioned by the media. Among them, alphabetically, were J. Ogden Armour, Vincent Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Pierre DuPont, Henry Clay Frick, Daniel Guggenheim, Cyrus McCormick, John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Russell Sage, Jacob Schiff, Charles M. Schwab, and William Vanderbilt. Since all but a few of these names own shares of the Federal Reserve, it is unlikely that any of them became “less rich” over time. The business holdings of these men included oil, coal, railroads, steel, gold and silver mining, and investment banking. Rockefeller headed the Forbes list. His wealth in 1918 was conservatively estimated at $1.2 billion by Forbes in an age when a bank president who earned $5,000.00 per year and was considered to be an extremely wealthy man.”
The Robber Barons wanted a world without borders with a common currency with which to trade anywhere in the world; a global economy with a global government. Does this sound familiar?
*The 16th Amendment is the Inc0me Tax Amendment
Posted by Vincent G. Gioia
there is a book marv , unable to recall book title when i do i will let everyone know
asshole Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 6:40 am
you know marv there is another book to read not the one i cannot recall
just another that also speaks of another facet of the same robber barons murderers and thieves
upton sinclair . oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil! …than follow the links mind boggeling
June 25th, 2009 at 5:27 am
makes perfect sense, take a bogus system and regulate it in a bogus way, smoke and mirrors majik act.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Just another scam to put more money in the Krakow swindlers pockets. All we get for our money is more wars for Israel.
asshole Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 6:54 am
consider this ….
“A holy war will now begin on America, and when it is ended America will be supposedly the citadel of freedom, but her millions will unknowingly be loyal subjects to the Crown. Your churches will be used to teach the Jew’s religion and in less than two hundred years the whole nation will be working for divine world government. That government that they believe to be divine will be the British Empire. All religions will be permeated with Judaism without even being noticed by the masses, and they will all be under the invisible all-seeing eye of the Grand Architect of Freemasonry.”
– British General Charles Cornwallis to General George Washington
sound familiar ?
June 25th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Where can i see the law obliging people to pay a tax on their labor?
Steven UK Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Father Christmas is looking after it Narnia.
CivilianResistance Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Yes, there is no law. but try not paying it. The Fed will have you so tied up in courts that you’d wish you would have just paid it. They’ll flog you and make an example of you. Cause if they let one get away, and the public sees it, then they’ll all resist. If we ALL just stopped paying, i highly doubt they would pursue everyone, they’d bankrupt themselves just trying to indict us all.
Dilbert McGunnut Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Read my posting above. Over 10 million buck back so far. Cracking the Code works.
free-man Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am
There is a law it just simply does not apply to most people, the “show me the law” movement is wrong and lots of them go to prison. losthorizons.com explains the only way the IRS knows you make a living is when the person paying you turns in a W-2 or 1099-MISC on you which if you do not rebut stands as evidence that you are a fed. “employee” IRS form 4852 corrects these false claims.
Anyone who wants their property returned must correct the info forms submitted to the IRS about them.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Well, so much for Turbo Tax software. I’m sure the establishment libs will be predicting “the tax software lobbyists will lobby to their Republican constituents”.
nader paul kucinich gravel Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 10:00 am
The Bankers will clean up after the AIPAC 911 cover up.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:04 am
NOW THEY CAN GET SOME MORE MONEY OUT OF US THAT’S ALL THESE CREEPS KNOW HOW TO DO, TAKE MONEY FROM THE LITTLE GUY, MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN DOING OUR TAXS FOR YEARS ONE YEAR HE MADE A FEW MISTAKES AND THE IRS OWED US ALOT MORE MONEY THAN WE THOUGHT. WE HAVE NOT CHEATED THE GOVERMENT. THESE tAX PREPARERS
NOW WANT EVERYONE LISCENSED SO THEY CAN GET MORE MONEY!!!!!
BUNCH OF REAL CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 10:44 am
dont pay anything let it crash with out them controlling it is my idea will it work
June 25th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
How about a special tax on all politicians. Each and every time they use the phone, use the toilet or use the elevator there should be a citizen political tax of $1000.dollars per item per use each and every day of their political careers. Let us begin taxing the elite like they do the majority of American and I assure you that their tune would change very quickly. If politicians refuse or run out of money to pay the political taxes then we should place them in debtors prison to make sure we get our money. Start doing this to the bankers, corporate thugs, lawyers and anyone who considers themselves the so called elite and we will see the change we were promised.
Dea G. Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Be nice to see a big acceleration on installing cameras on their every move in public, too; that’s supposed to work against all us ‘terrorists,’ so I think it oughta’ work in reverse.
Shortly, we’d see just how little these pot-bellied parasites actually do for those that feed them their royalty hobb-knobbing, quisling, meal worm salaries.
Peaceful prosperity R3volution for regime change!
Dr. Ron “Uncle Action Sam” Paul for Pres. in 2010.
mises.org
June 25th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
“This means that Uncle Oscar couldn’t help his nephew prepare his income tax return unless a Washington bureaucrat grants a license.” – It certainly does NOT!
This is a stupid non-story. Anyone can help you prepare your tax return, but you’re ultimatley responsible for any errors or omissions. If you’re going to have a prepairer sign your return as the one who prepared it, then I don’t see the problem with them having to be liscensed. If you’re getting a neighbor or an Uncle or a friend to help you with your return, they shouldn’t be signing as the preparer unless they’re a professional. They can do the return for you if you want, but YOU’RE the one soley responsible.
Now the issue of taxes and the IRS is whole different story. But this is just one of the several non-issues that this web site posts, just to instill a false sense of fear or anger. There’s plenty of valid reasons to be mad about the IRS and the fleecing of average hard working Americans without having to resort to posting meaningless, manipulative articles.
free-man Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 10:23 am
It is against the law for any person to tell another person how to fill out a 1040,unless they are certificated tax preparers. A 1040 is signed under penalty of perjury, which makes a sworn document of your first hand knowledge of the facts on that doc.
Jim Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Yes. Like I said. Uncle Fred can do my tax return for me and when I sign it, I and I alone am responsible for it. Please site one single instance where the IRS went after an Uncle Fred because they were blamed by the filer for mistakes on a tax return that the filer then signed.
And like I said, this is a non-issue.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
where in the constitution does it say we are required to file a personal tax return?
or pay a direct tax on our labor?
when you find it
please e-mail it to aaron@infowars.com so PP can post it for everyone to see
and then you can collect your 2 million in prize money 2
free-man Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 9:59 am
LOSTHORIZONS.COM, will explain all,when ever you read anything legal you have to know the deference between a word and a “TERM” legal terms such as “employee” ,”employer” and “trade or business” have custom definitions that only aply to the class of “employee” in that Title or Code.
When someone submits a W-2 or 1099-MISC on you it creates the presumption that you are a “employee” and there for if left unchallenged you are a “taxpayer” by default. Anytime you do not challenge a accusation a judge will use “presumptive law” to stick it to you,and make a example of you.
Any tine you are reading something legal you have to remember “terms”with custom def. are deffer ant from words with normal everyday meanings.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I am an expert. I do not pay the uniformed thugs who pretend that the income tax is constitutional.
Do not pay these motherfuckers!
June 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
The American Empire Is
Bankrupt
Posted on Jun 14, 2009
thegrandawakening.com
By Chris Hedges
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks
the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it
signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And
what is to come will be very, very painful.
Barack Obama, and the criminal class on Wall Street, aided by a corporate media that
continues to peddle fatuous gossip and trash talk as news while we endure the greatest
economic crisis in our history, may have fooled us, but the rest of the world knows we
are bankrupt. And these nations are damned if they are going to continue to prop up an
inflated dollar and sustain the massive federal budget deficits, swollen to over $2 trillion,
which fund America’s imperial expansion in Eurasia and our system of casino capitalism.
They have us by the throat. They are about to squeeze. See the rest here….
http://www.thegrandawakening.com/
June 25th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Dam right never file. I got $154,400 last year by trading high grade buds for money!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 5:39 am
how bout we ban the irs all useless criminals
June 26th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Our Friend and Hero, Aaron Russo Has Passed. He went to an IRS Commissioner and tried to find the law that says you have to file a 1040 form. The Commissioner could not and would not answer his question, instead pointing to the gigantic U.S. Code and tax laws.
Esteemed filmmaker, ardent activist and loyal patriot Aaron Russo lost his battle to cancer on August 24, 2007 at the age of 64.
Since no such law exists, by what authority are they doing this? Even Zacchaeus had authority. The IRS has to pay postage. Real government agencies don’t have to pay postage. I have letters from the IRS and the INS so I know this.
“And behold [there was a] man by name being called Zacharias, and he was chief tax collector, and he was rich.”
Luke 19:2
June 29th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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