[mgkimsal]

I remember getting some tax notification, and attached was some 2 page doc indicating "we've spent a lot of time working on making our documents more understandable, let us know how we're doing"... and... the notice they'd sent me was... more confusing than it needed to be. My accountant didn't quite understand it. I mean, he knew what it was, but hadn't seen the new language, and to top it off, it was months late - indicating I owed money that I'd paid months earlier.

We replied the following Monday, because the notice said we had to reply.

THEN.. 3 months later I got another notice indicating they'd received the first reply, and they needed a bit more time to process.

This was over about $200.

I would love to see them resourced appropriately, but the "let's hire more IRS employees" has been viscously attacked as "87000 more people with guns coming to take all your money!". I've been hearing that propaganda for weeks (months?) now.

[yamtaddle]

> I would love to see them resourced appropriately, but the "let's hire more IRS employees" has been viscously attacked as "87000 more people with guns coming to take all your money!". I've been hearing that propaganda for weeks (months?) now.

Yeah, they've got way fewer people per taxpayer than in the 90s, and I don't think the new hires, the hiring of which will be spread unevenly over a decade, will even bring them back up to that level. Meanwhile the "armed" thing is just transparent bullshit—"here was ONE job posting for the police branch of the IRS (tons of federal agencies have such a branch of armed agents, including many you wouldn't expect), so all these new hires will surely be armed IRS cops coming to bust your door down and take your money!" LOL WUT. But A Certain Set of Terrible News Sources ran with that (knowing it was a lie) so to some chunk of the population, it's true now.