Chapter 799： IRS（1）

Less than a second after Yang Sen’s ruthless words were played, the face-slapped text messages arrived as scheduled. The text message came from Ryze Khan, and the content read, "The IRS special investigator has arrived."

Don’t look at anything else. The three letters IRS alone are enough to make people feel scared. Don’t feel exaggerated. In the United States, if there is a department that is more troublesome than F~B~I, it is definitely not N~S~A or C. ~I~A, but IRS, which is the Federal Revenue Service.

This special department under the U.S. Department of the Treasury is the key agency responsible for taxation in the U.S. Federal ZF. It was established in 1862. The IRS has only two designated positions: Director and Chief Counsel. They need to be nominated by the U.S. President and approved by the Senate. "On duty", of course, in order to check and balance the power of the director, the IRS also has a nine-person supervisory committee to ensure that every taxpayer is treated fairly. Although the IRS is headquartered in Washington, DC, most of the audit work is in the local office.

Why is Lao Meitian not afraid of being afraid, only when facing the IRS alone, he will have a fearful mentality?

Its large army of employees is a very important reason. To some extent, the IRS can be said to be the largest bureaucracy in the United States. It employs more than 110,000 people and holds the American Social Security number and bank account number. There are as many as 40,000 personnel in the inspection operation, and they are almost pervasive. It is important to know that adding all the operatives and clerks of the two major intelligence agencies, F~B~I and C~I~A, is not as many as IRS. .

Therefore, there has always been a saying in the United States, “Don’t provoke IRS”. It can be seen that the deterrence of IRS far exceeds that of the Central Qing Dynasty and the Ministry of State. As for how powerful its power is, it can also be described in one sentence. It is a group of "civil officials" who can be equipped with guns and can arrest people!

In this world, there are people who are scared and afraid of death, but there is a kind of people that everyone is afraid of, that is, the educated hooligans. The IRS group is obviously a group of hooligans standing at the top of the pyramid!

In the United States, April 15 is an ordinary day, but it is an out-and-out "big day." This day is the tax payment deadline set by the federal law of the United States. Thousands of Americans have to talk to the IRS on this day. Come to a contest of wits and courage, of course, most of the final winner is IRS.

Before April 15th, Americans must submit a document to the local department of the IRS, take out their own income certificate, and fill out the form for the IRS staff to review, because bank accounts and credit cards are registered with social security numbers, so Once tax evasion, the IRS is fully capable of detecting it.

The greatest privilege of the IRS is to freeze property without a court trial. Therefore, if you do not want to be targeted by the IRS, no matter what source of income, even if it is illegal income, you must file a tax return. Two things that Americans cannot avoid in their lives are death. And pay taxes!

Don't be lucky. The United States is a "ten-thousand tax nation", and personal income tax is collected according to income levels.

The minimum federal tax rate is 10% of income, up to 35%, which is generally directly deducted from the payroll.

Even for the emerging e-commerce, IRS will never leave it alone. If you only sell items online without physical stores, the business tax can basically be exempted, but as long as the website brings you income, you still have to pay federal income tax.

In Hollywood blockbusters or hit American dramas, JC often tells suspects that "you have the right to remain silent", but on the issue of taxation, if you evade taxes, you have no right to silence.

In the United States, no one is afraid of ZF or the police, but it is different when it comes to IRS. The prestigious name of this department was widely recognized by Americans as early as the 1930s, because IRS brought down a company F~ B~I was helpless gang leader Alkavon, this case also made IRS "famous".

In 1920, Alkavon was still a rogue at the time, but through many street wars, Kavon's status in the Chicago gang gradually increased. At the age of 26, he became a gang leader and controlled Chicago's huge underground crime with an iron fist. The group, it is said that he killed no less than a hundred people. Chicago ZF has always wanted to disintegrate his "gang empire", but it has been unsuccessful. F~B~I has not been able to find direct evidence of the IRS crime, and in desperation , Had to ask the IRS for help.

The IRS immediately took action. According to the investigation, Kavon collected most of Chicago's gambling, brothel, and drinking industries and made excess profits. In 1927, he allegedly owned 100 million US dollars, but Kavon never had one. He only signed a check once in his life for a bank account opened in his own name. He used cash for almost everything he did.

Three IRS agents once bluntly told their superiors that "Kavon is very shrewd, and this case is undoubtedly the most difficult situation to handle." But they didn't give up, and they made a bold statement to crucify this hei gang leader within three years.

In order to complete the task, the IRS began to closely track Kavon's income and business, and at the same time, tried to convince some witnesses to come out to testify.

In a casino in Illinois, a casino clerk mentioned that Kavon’s person had an exquisite canvas book on which every income and expenditure was recorded.

There are also records showing that Cavon and his gang did some bribery transactions in the local area: some records from 1925 to 1926 show that in this series of operations, "local officials" received 20% of the benefits, and Cavon's benefits doubled. , There are probably more than 250,000 US dollars.

After 3 years of investigation, in 1931, based on the evidence pieced together, Kavon was sued for tax evasion. The IRS finally sent Kavon to federal prison. After 11 years in prison, his criminal group was wiped out. (Manually serious Face), IRS is so urinary.

If you think this is an exception, the gangster is too far away from you, and the IRS will not smash you for a few dollars, then you are very wrong.

There was once Murata who immigrated to the United States as a dentist from RB. He only reported an income of more than 400,000 US dollars a year, and most American dentists had an annual income of more than one million US dollars. This aroused the suspicion of the IRS, so they did not hesitate Investigate.

The IRS sent agents to Murata's clinic to investigate and observe for more than a month. According to preliminary calculations, Murata's monthly income should be around US$150,000.

This is very different from the number he declared, so the IRS used the recorded car number of the dental patients to find the patients one by one to copy their invoices.

It turns out that many people only pay in cash because they can save about 10% of the consultation fee. Of course, they can't get the invoice.

After obtaining relevant evidence of Murata's tax evasion, a large number of JC and IRS inspectors came to Murata's mansion worth more than two million US dollars and issued arrest warrants and search warrants against Murata.

JC immediately searched Murata’s home, but found nothing. IRS couldn’t believe it and immediately called in his own searchers. These searchers were better equipped than JC, and finally found a secret room in the wall. Nearly one million dollars in cash was found.

Three months later, Murata was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for nine crimes including tax evasion, tax evasion, and fraud. He was sentenced to 24 million U.S. dollars in tax evasion, and 5 million U.S. dollars in additional taxes. bail.

It is precisely because they pay every point of taxation that their reputation in China has not been very good. Some people even publicly question the necessity of the existence of IRS, thinking that IRS is spending taxpayers’ money, but doing harm to taxpayers. Interest matters should be banned.

Of course, this dear man’s original intention was good, but he did not expect to incur a disaster for himself. Not long after he made his voice, the IRS commissioner checked all the matters involving money and money from his childhood. In the end it was discovered that he had escaped a tax of thousands of dollars and the tax evasion certificate sent to the door, the IRS would not easily let it go. It simply ignored his complaints and sent him a three-year imprisonment. As for the tax and Fines, of course, cannot be less.

This also proves from the side how "prestigious" the IRS is, so that IRS people dare not say where they work at parties and are afraid of being kept away.

A former tax officer of the IRS once said that as an IRS agent, you must have a strong nerve.

By the way, when this female tax officer was applying for an appointment, the interviewer reminded her that sometimes she would do some "not decent things" for this job, and also asked her a few questions, such as "Whether it can be deducted smoothly? The car of the bankrupt? Is it possible to post a confiscation notice to a poor family? Is it possible to face an angry citizen holding a pistol without changing his face?"

The above problems are all practical problems that IRS tax officials need to face, so there is a reason why they are not treated by Americans. From the general to the slum beggars, they cannot escape the clutches of the IRS.

A couple in California, USA, found more than 1,400 gold coins buried in the ground while walking their dog near their home. According to the U.S. tax law, the IRS will deduct taxes on “unowned buried objects” identified by the tax law, and take away about half of the value of the tax. .

It has been almost 5 years since the sudden death of American pop music superstar Michael Jackson but still reluctantly came to "chasing money". The executor of Jackson's estate declared that his net worth was only 7 million when he died. People don’t believe it. However, the IRS determined that its actual assets were worth 1.125 billion U.S. dollars. Not only did it pay 505 million U.S. dollars in taxes, but also imposed a fine of 197 million U.S. dollars, totaling more than 702 million U.S. dollars. Co-author Jackson has been busy all his life, but it is equivalent to a long-term job for IRS?

There are Jackson’s fans who complain about their idols, but they are all together. They are just a man’s arm as a car. The IRS has been determined to track down a tax. It has not failed so far. The poor people who have no money are fine, the wealthy businessmen and the rich. ZF councillors are even more favorites of the IRS. Even if you are backed by the country’s boss, it’s useless. Oguanhai’s 2009 Minister of Health designate Dashler and another senior official designate, Kirif, are all because The "tax issue" was pulled down by the IRS and missed the coveted position of power, and it also put a black hat on Oguanhai.

But did the IRS receive revenge in the end? No, Comrade Guanhai also personally sent an impartial official to the post of IRS director. Then again, he wanted to protect his own people. Unfortunately, the eyes of the masses are discerning. It is natural to design your own taxation. It's best if you don't check it, but it involves others, it's best to be fair and just, and never allow yourself to betray the law.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this human nature that has led to the long-standing power of the IRS.