The latest tales from the adventures of the IRS coming out of the investigations of the House Judiciary Committee are simply alarming and they involve regular old working-class people, not just Donald Trump or Elon Musk.
It turns out that IRS agents have used fake names when dealing with taxpayers and engaged in tactics that definitely constituted harassment.
The IRS allows its agents to use fake names when they contact taxpayers, according to a congressional report Friday that found the pseudonyms can create a tense and potentially harassing system.
The House Judiciary Committee documented a case in Ohio where an IRS agent showed up at a taxpayer's home unannounced, lied about his name and the reason for his visit, refused to leave when told to do so by the woman's lawyer, threatened to freeze the taxpayer's assets and then filed a complaint against the police when they responded.
It was only after they contacted the IRS' inspector general that they learned the man was a real agent using a fake name, "Agent Bill Haus.".
Is the use of fake names something they put in writing or just some sort of unofficial "Tradition" that developed at the agency over time? How often does it happen? Or, if this office that employed "Bill Haus" was some sort of aberration, was the employee and/or their supervisor terminated?
IRS agents are not sent in to resolve hostage situations or stop a killer in their tracks.
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