The IRS can now access anyone's bank records without first notifying them.
In a 9-0 ruling issued last month, the Supreme Court set a new precedent on the need to notify any individual about the IRS accessing their bank records.
In the opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court notes the following:
โCongress has given the IRS considerable power to go after unpaid taxes. One tool at the Service's disposal is the authority to summon people with information concerning a
delinquent taxpayer. But to safeguard privacy, the IRS is generally required to provide notice to anyone named in a summons, who can then sue to quash it. Today's case concerns an exception to that general rule.โฆThe statute sets forth three conditions to exempt the IRS from providing notice in circumstances like these. First, a summons must be โissued in aid of . . . collection.โ
ยง7609(c)(2)(D). Second, it must aid the collection of โan assessment made or judgment rendered.โ ยง7609(c)(2)(D)(i). By โassessment,โ the Code โrefers to the official recording
of a taxpayer's liability.โ Direct Marketing Assn. v. Brohl, 575 U. S. 1, 9 (2015); see also Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U. S. 88, 100 (2004). Section 7609(c)(2)(D)(i) does not excuse notice, therefore, until the IRS makes an official assessment or a judgment has been rendered with respect to a taxpayer's liability.Third, a summons must aid the collection of assessments or judgments โagainst the person with respect to whose liability the summons is issued.โ ยง7609(c)(2)(D)(i).
This requirement links the subject of the assessment or judgment with the subject of the collection effortโthey must concern the same delinquent taxpayer.โ
This means that under this new precedent, the IRS can seize anyone's bank records as long as they are presumed to be financially tied to any individual under investigation by the agency.
Former Georgia congressman and current Chairman of Liberty Guard Bob Barr told American Liberty News that โthe Court has removed even a pretense of privacy protection against government snooping when it comes to Uncle Sam's insatiable appetite for money.โ
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist also shared a similar sentiment, noting that โthe IRS needs to be reformed, not expanded. The $20 billion cut from IRS spending is a good start in telling the IRS that its culture and behavior have to change. The invasions of privacy have to stop.โ
The U.S. House passed a debt limit package yesterday that would roll back funding to the IRS. Per CNBC, the package would cut $21.4 billion from the most recent $80 billion in funds allocated to the agency.
The bill now heads to a final vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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JOHN ROBERTS IS COMPROMISED AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED. THE FACT SCOTUS JUST THREW EVERY AMERICAN TO THE WOLVES. SCOTHUS, DOJ, BIDEN ADMISTRATION UNDER THE CCP HAS NOW LITERALLY STRIPPED AMERICANS OF THEIR PRIVACY AND HAS NOW INSURED AMERICANS WILL BE ATTACKED AND JAILED FOR THE SMALLEST OF INFRATIONS WHILE ELITIST WILL BE EXNORATED OR, NEVER INVETIGATED. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE ON THE PART OF THE SCOTUS!!!