I get the intent here, but it’s a really bad comparison. It’s certainly easy to get confused about without base level awareness of finance and accounting things.
The DoD is a government cost center. It doesn’t generate revenue. Therefore nothing to tax. Meaning nothing for the IRS to audit.
That’s why the federal government has other audit authorities and often contracts independent auditors to help. Those people are auditing department spending and assets related though. This type of audit is not to check if taxes are owed. It’s more like making sure the department bank account is correct to keep this simple.
This. Congress is in control of auditing the Pentagon.
The most the IRS would do would be auditing the incomes of people who work at the Pentagon.
Badly put together meme.
I also want to add that many landlords were beginning to demand that their tenants pay with venmo, or other e-payment services, and those leeches need to pay their taxes.
Which the IRS has acted on, and most these platforms have to send documents to the IRS for anyone that crosses a certain threshold. They are going to have to prove it isn’t income or claim it.
I found this article on the audit. It’s also about boring but necessary things like stockpile management, automation, climate risk, and bookkeeping. It’s broken into 30 sub-audits. It sounds like all of these must be fully passed as “clean” for an audit to not be considered failing.
Yep, I’m not sure why folks think this is anything more than some company lost a gas mask somewhere. It’s me… I’m the problem it’s me.
s/IRS/GSA/
Poor people can’t afford lawyers to fight back.
Rich people can.
ErgotErgo, they aim at poor people way more often.Ergot, they aim at poor people way more often.
Or 99.9% of people are poor lol.
Besides, thank you Biden.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/11/09/irs-uses-funding-to-audit-wealthy/71486513007/
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We really just need a corporate revenue tax. Any other method of taxing the ultra wealthy will be abused so that the ultra wealthy are the only ones not paying it
Ah true, guess we better do nothing rather than search for billion dollar quarters in the trillionaire holding elite class.
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Not sure what grain fungus has to do with it
Well, they are pretty clearly tripping, so maybe grain fungus has more to do with it than we realize.
Nice catch.
ergotism is a sick grim salvo reference
USA is an empire based on the strongest military in the world. Of course DoD has green light for everything. Or you believe that european countries/japan follow the american interests against their own for good will?
May I introduce you to our lemmy instance? Sending over $600 without the IRS feeling up on you, lol.
I don’t condone tax evasion, but I do oppose mass surveillance and firmly believe “innocent until proven guilty”. The biggest tax evaders are large corpos and megachurches anyway.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/understanding-your-form-1099-k
Here are some resources to counter this misinformation.
Most importantly being that this limit, form, and change is for businesses. This is not for personal accounts.
That is for businesses, Cash app PayPal venmo etc,to report to the IRS that you had this source of income. 1099k has to deal with Internet transactions. This is absolutely for personal accounts.
Payments you got from family and friends should not be reported on Form 1099-K
Yes, yet this is what people are acting as if this regulations are. Keyword here is should.
Thank you. I keep seeing memes like this but have never heard of anyone I know actually getting audited. I only got audited once when I completely forgot to include the income from a place I worked for a couple weeks, which is fair (and probably automated on their end considering they would’ve sent their withholding information to the IRS anyways)
Yes that process is basically automated. It’s actually called The Automated Underreporter.
IRS ain’t going after the DoD. Not their job.
GAO is supposed to do that, and they regularly publish scathing reports about all sorts of DoD shit. Public, too
Reports which nobody reads and carry no consequences.
The only certainties are death and taxes, but I’m still waiting on both to catch up with me.
