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The Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, also called the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), is an office within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, reporting directly to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. [1]
Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of conspiracy arguments asserting that Congress, the courts and various agencies within the federal government—primarily the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)—are involved in a deception deliberately designed to procure from individuals or entities their wealth or profits in contravention of law.
In 2014, alliantgroup moved its headquarters to a LEED Platinum certified building in Houston, Texas that was designed by Kirksey Architecture. [7] As of 2015, the company had over 600 employees in total. In 2016, roughly 460 employees were working at its Houston branch.
Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer (PDT) [1] is a government designation assigned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to taxpayers of the United States of America whom IRS officials claim have demonstrated a capacity for violence against employees of the IRS or other government agencies, contractors or their families.
Appeals staff has been cut by nearly 40 percent, from 2,172 in fiscal 2010 to 1,345 in 2017. [9]Nina E. Olson, when she served as the IRS National Taxpayer Advocate, mentioned Appeals in her 2018 testimony before Congress, advising lawmakers, "Activities like outreach and education, congressional and media relations, examinations, and collections in a country as large and diverse as ours ...
Former IRS officials and tax experts say this type of behavior would provide a "legitimate basis" for additional scrutiny. Ohio State University law professor Donald Tobin said: "While some of the I.R.S. questions may have been overbroad, you can look at some of these groups and understand why these questions were being asked." [50]
The IRS Whistleblower Office announced that in fiscal year 2020, 169 whistleblowers were awarded a total of $86 million. [23] [24] Since the Office was founded, it has awarded more than $1.01 billion and collected $6.14 billion “in back taxes, interest, penalties, and criminal fines and sanctions.” [23]
In 1977, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in the case of Ex parte Tammen, referred to a tax-protester group called the "United Tax Action Patriots" or "UTAP": The evidence shows that the organized tax-protester group is growing rapidly.