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Why the double standards and dirty dealing?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that only IRS employees can possibly know where the "missing" $103 million happened to "disappear" to.

Double standards

Timothy Geithner blatantly cheated on his taxes for several years, but after getting caught he claimed he made an honest mistake. The IRS let him off with no penalties or interest. Meanwhile, the IRS behavior toward the Hoyt victims has been downright brutal and well outside what any sane person would consider "civilized." The Hoyt victims didn't cheat on their taxes; but they did follow written instructions from, and believe written assurances from, the IRS. Watch this video: Geithner Song
Bill Clinton deducted $4 a pair for used underpants he "donated" to charity. The IRS turned a blind eye to this obvious tax cheating. But the IRS is aggressively attacking people whose only "crime" was to believe what the IRS told them. In writing. Why the double standard?
Congressman Chuck Rangel is Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which essentially writes the tax code. He cheated on his taxes, then claimed he "didn't know" it was illegal to hide income from the IRS via offshore accounts. The IRS lets him off with no penalties or interest. And Rangel, who should be serving 30 years in prison for tax evasion, is still Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
O.J. Simpson committed a brutal double homicide, yet the government let him walk away. Meanwhile, people whose only "crime" was to trust IRS employees' written assurances are being systematically destroyed. Why the double standard?
The number of victims of the Hoyt Fiasco exceeds the number of victims of all three attacks on the World Trade Center combined (1992 and 2001). In both cases, the attacks caused innocent people to die. Congress has done nothing for the 4300 Hoyt victims across America, but for an attack on fewer Americans in just one city--the entire nation went to war. Why the double standard?

Read this and ask, "Why the aggressive behavior toward the Hoyt victims?" Or anybody else, for that matter:

2009-02TheWeekIRSAbatesInterestAndPenaltiesForTopDogs.pdf

Dirty dealing

The IRS is using tactics one of their own attorneys publicly stated were unethical and morally indefensible (as reported in the Augusta Chronicle). That statement came out before the trial in which IRS people suppressed material evidence and repeatedly claimed "I can't remember" instead of answering questions on the witness stand.

Devastation

How can anyone justify devastating thousands of innocent people who relied on the written promises of government officials? The costs to the remaining victims continue to mount, as government employees continue to misappropriate IRS resources and violate Congressional mandates in their zeal to destroy the victims.

Consider these victim statements:

"Jay Hoyt defrauded me of $50,000 over 11 years (roughly twice my average annual wages during that time), until 1995. IRS calls this 'tax sheltering' and now wants all of my assets and nearly all my income for the next 10 years. Figure that one out."

"I ran the numbers. If I can somehow charm someone into loaning me the money to pay what I allegedly owe, it will take me 233 years to pay back the loan--and doing that means living below the poverty line the whole time."

Imagine being bilked of your retirement savings, with the help of people working for a federal agency. Imagine that those people provided you written assurances that your suspicions of wrong-doing were incorrect--that they had examined things and you had nothing to worry about.

Now imagine--after you discover that, yes, you had been defrauded after all, these same people create a "theft tax" and hit you with tax bills that would stagger someone earning ten times what you make.

Denying you due process, they threaten you with prison if you don't fork over absurdly large amounts of money--more than you could earn in a lifetime. And they do this even though nowhere in the Tax Code is there any such thing as a "theft tax" (tip: it's called an "income tax").

If you think that can't happen to innocent American citizens, think again.

Welcome to the Hoyt Fiasco.

Why?

Why are these people going to such extremes to silence the victims?
What are they trying to hide?
Why is over $103 million "missing?"
How do IRS employees justify spending far more on devastating the victims than they can possibly ever collect from them? This isn't helping the government--so why are they doing it?

Believe the facts, not the rhetoric

This clearly is not "a taxation issue," though some IRS employees keep telling legislators it is and supplying misinformation to support that allegation. There are very good reasons why the judge who sentenced Jay Hoyt to spend the rest of his life in prison sent a message back to the government.

The IRS has been hijacked by a handful of employees to embark on an expensive bureaucratic exercise in abuse. What motivated those employees to do this? Is it a coincidence that $103 million is somehow "missing" even though these folks are the only ones other than Jay Hoyt to have access to all the records? And why have they blocked every effort of the defrauded investors to see those records?

What to do

Contact federal law enforcement officials, your senators, your Congressman, members of the Senate Finance Committee, the Treasury Inspector, and others who should object to this inexcusable behavior and are in a position to do something about it. See the menu at left for resources to help you do this.

We are trying to remain unbiased. Despite the situation inflicted on us, we have tried to cooperate with the IRS. While they have made statements we have proven wrong, we have made every effort to present the facts as we know them and not to distort things just to further our agenda. In fact, we have asked IRS officials to let us know if any information on this site is inaccurate.

We are not anti-IRS. We aren't on some mission to make the IRS look bad (we can't possibly do that as well as they do already). We are thankful for good people in the IRS who oppose the inexcusable way other folks in the IRS are handling this fiasco and mistreating the Hoyt victims. Unfortunately, the good people do not seem to be the ones in charge. And why hasn't Congress put a stop to this blatant abuse? Have members of Congress forgotten that "representative" means something? Why the unethical treatment of the Hoyt Victims? And where's the "missing" $103 million?

We are not tax protestors. We are not trying to protest taxes or shirk our duties as citizens. We are not part of any tax protest group, nor are we one ourselves. We seek to thwart specific abuse, conducted by people in the IRS. This outrageous violation of the public trust has already cost the taxpayers far too much. Worse, it has taken the lives of several victims and ruined the lives of hundreds more. How many more innocent American citizens will be unlawfully stripped of their property or even their very lives, before we can resolve this in an intelligent, lawful, and equitable manner?

The Hoyt Fiasco: A Miscarriage of Justice Victim information, evidence, rules of law, IRS viewpoints, contact information, and more.
*Why did the IRS lead prosecuting attorney in the Hoyt case quit in disgust?*
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