DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data
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DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
How do you feel about that?
@Axtremus said in DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data:
How do you feel about that?
It’s terrifying. And dangerous.
I think things have been set I motion that cannot be undone.
I’m worried about the safety of all future elections, at all levels.
Musk has been given too much access, and that access cannot now be revoked.
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Are you all going to pay taxes this year? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, in light of what is going on. I'm thinking of filing an extension, in hopes that by fall we'll have a better idea of where things stand.
I’ve been thinking the same thing.
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True. If they have enough staff to do anything at all.
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@AdagioM we have filed an extension most years, usually because I was on deadline and resented the interruption of preparing my taxes. We have never paid anything at the time of the extension, and we have never had to pay a penalty. I was going to do them early this year, but now I am thinking of not doing them at all. My accountant is sympathetic, politically. I expect I'll be calling him for advice on this.
Thoreau went to jail for not paying his taxes because he objected to his tax dollars being spent on war. Then he wrote a book about it, "Civil Disobedience," which inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and MLK.
Things are in such a dire state at the moment, I'm afraid those of us who can, need to follow their example.
