Number of IRS Levies, Liens, and Seizures Falling

There’s a new IRS DataBook out, so I’ve updated my charts with numbers for last year:

Between 1992 and 1997, the I.R.S. was using property seizure about 10,000 times per year, but then the numbers suddenly dropped, and have been in the hundreds or below since 1999.

After rising for several years since a low in 2000, the number of levies served by the I.R.S. has been dropping again

After rising for several years since 1999, the number of liens filed by the I.R.S. has been dropping for the last four years

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How you can resist funding the government → about the IRS and U.S. tax law/policy → IRS incompetence → enforcement effort/results → IRS Data Book numbers: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; The I.R.S. Data Book gives a hint at how their collections efforts are going. Also: direct action against war material shipments, construction recycling, the down side to tax efficiency, an increased I.R.S. enforcement budget, a new war tax resistance blog, Iraq War supplemental funding pork, and more leisure for the poor.; The I.R.S. releases statistics on how many taxpayers are being disobedient, and what they’ve been doing about it. Also: the I.R.S. is a bit trigger-happy in sending out “frivolous filing” warnings to conscientious objectors to military taxation. And: Abbie Hofmann’s “Steal This Book” is brought into the modern, wiki-age. Also: Caleb Johnson lays down the old-school rhetoric for anarchism.; Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is doing about it. Also: you’re invited to free introductory workshops on war tax resistance this weekend in San Francisco.; Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is doing about it.; Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is (and often, isn’t) doing about it.; The new I.R.S. Data Book is out, giving us a look at how their enforcement efforts (and taxpayer compliance) have changed over the past several years.; Graphs that show how U.S. taxpayer noncompliance and I.R.S. enforcement efforts are changing over time. Also: Darian Worden on the political philosophy of Thoreau, David Hartsough on war tax resistance, and a look at the I.R.S.-produced Star Trek parody video.; Some updated numbers on how often the I.R.S. has been resorting to levies, liens, and property seizures in recent years.; The I.R.S. made fewer property seizures, served fewer levies, and filed fewer liens last year than the year before, continuing a recent trend. Also: another example of a suspicious envelope of white powder causing the evacuation of an I.R.S. building.; The I.R.S. made fewer property seizures, served fewer levies, and filed fewer liens last year than the year before, continuing a trend over the last several years.; Tax resistance news from all over the world, including also news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement and notes about declining taxpayer morale in the U.S. Also: some numbers have just been released about how many levies, liens, and property seizures the I.R.S. resorted to last year.; The I.R.S. Data Book is out, with numbers about how many levies, liens, and property seizures the I.R.S. resorted to last year. Here’s how that compares to other recent years. I’m definitely looking forward to next year’s numbers.
How you can resist funding the government → about the IRS and U.S. tax law/policy → IRS incompetence → enforcement effort/results → liens, levies, and seizures: ▶; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦; The I.R.S. is doing more auditing, more liens, more levying, and bringing in more money by doing so… at least if you believe its press releases. It doesn’t like it when people want to look too closely at the underlying data. Also: one taxpayer calls the I.R.S. bluff and prevails in tax court.; The I.R.S. Data Book gives a hint at how their collections efforts are going. Also: direct action against war material shipments, construction recycling, the down side to tax efficiency, an increased I.R.S. enforcement budget, a new war tax resistance blog, Iraq War supplemental funding pork, and more leisure for the poor.; An Oakland, California hardware store owner refuses to collect or remit sales tax in protest against the government’s failure to protect his community against violent crime. Also: a look at the I.R.S. enforcement numbers for last year. And: the “Death and Taxes” poster illustrating the 2008 U.S. Federal Budget is released.; The I.R.S. releases statistics on how many taxpayers are being disobedient, and what they’ve been doing about it. Also: the I.R.S. is a bit trigger-happy in sending out “frivolous filing” warnings to conscientious objectors to military taxation. And: Abbie Hofmann’s “Steal This Book” is brought into the modern, wiki-age. Also: Caleb Johnson lays down the old-school rhetoric for anarchism.; The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration analyzes the I.R.S. enforcement numbers over the last ten years. Also: If you want a picture of the future, imagine an I.R.S. Behavioral Science Unit stomping on a human face forever. And: how “framing” tax issues in different ways can make the same people take opposite positions.; The personal is political, but the devil is in the details. Also: my list of 22 ways to show solidarity with tax resisters is wikified. And: Why am I spending so much time and effort on old arguments about Quaker war tax resistance? Also: a number of American churches are planning a civil disobedience campaign to protest the fact that their tax-exempt status comes only at the cost of silencing their voice in political matters. And: a summary of those laws regulating I.R.S. seizure powers.; Some highlights from the just-released National Taxpayer Advocate’s Report to Congress that may be of interest to tax resisters.; On “The Ridley Report” Dave Ridley files a Peace Tax Return instead of a 1040. Also: a new G.A.O. report on the I.R.S. collection process contains a few bits of interest.; Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is doing about it. Also: you’re invited to free introductory workshops on war tax resistance this weekend in San Francisco.; Want to save the environment? Fight militarism. Also: Operation Dep 9, the latest feint towards tax resistance from American fiscal conservatives. And: a theoretical model of tax resister insurance. Also: protecting trust funds from federal tax liens. And: barter networks, alternative currencies, and the counter-economy. Also: I.R.S. agents are slacking when it comes to tax enforcement. And: tax resisters in Nankang, China gather in the thousands, block highways, overturn police cars, and force the government to rescind its tax enforcement plan.; I.R.S. enforcement numbers, updated for fiscal year 2009. Also: an woman in Britain tries, with some success, to convince her employer that it and its employees may be legally liable if it continues to pay taxes to a government that is engaged in illegal wars of aggression and other violations of international law.; Notes from the National Taxpayer Advocate’s Annual Report about social security levies, haphazard collection processes, rampant taxpatriatism, the undermining of the offer-in-compromise program, and increasing taxpayer noncompliance.; Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is doing about it.; War tax resisters George Monk and Molly Schaffnit went off-the-grid and back-to-the-land to stop funding the military. Also: Patrick O’Neill on the sentencing of war tax resister Frank Donnelly. And: Murry Rothbard on the 17th century French tax rebellion of the Croquants. Also: the latest news on I.R.S. enforcement efforts. And: The “contumacious” Kate Harvey refuses to pay her taxes or her fines, and other suffragists refuse to license their dogs, in 1913.; A new issue of “More Than a Paycheck,” NWTRCC’s newsletter, is on-line, including news about penny polls, “settle with the I.R.S. for pennies on the dollar” companies, “frivolous filing” overreach from the I.R.S., Karl Meyer on what makes war tax resisters more vulnerable to criminal prosecution, Ed Hedemann on the history of the U.S. government’s use of property seizures and criminal cases as tools against war tax resisters in the post-World War II era, and more.; The I.R.S. releases its new levies, liens, and seizures numbers; here’s how they compare to years past. Also: can you eliminate your tax debt by declaring bankruptcy? And: war tax resister Clare Hanrahan profiled. Also: a dispatch from the Tithe War. And: a 1969 tax strike in Papua New Guinea.; The National Taxpayer Advocate again chides the I.R.S. for abusing its power to file liens. Also: witches in Romania resist their taxes as only they know how. And: I try to volunteer to be a neighborhood disaster responder, but am told I have to sign a loyalty oath and pledge not to join subversive organizations first.; Homegrown tobacco? In Brooklyn? Taxes will make you do strange things. Also: the I.R.S. announces that it plans to ease up liens against people behind on their taxes. And: an early mention of women’s suffrage tax resistance workshops from The Vote.; Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is (and often, isn’t) doing about it.; Some updated statistics on how many liens, levies, and seizures the I.R.S. used last year to try to get taxes people couldn’t or wouldn’t pay.; Graphs that show how U.S. taxpayer noncompliance and I.R.S. enforcement efforts are changing over time. Also: Darian Worden on the political philosophy of Thoreau, David Hartsough on war tax resistance, and a look at the I.R.S.-produced Star Trek parody video.; Conservative tax resistance to protest against Obamacare. Cryptocurrencies as ideal tax havens. An I.R.S. enforcement shutdown. The war tax resistance of John Woolman. War tax resistance in a Jewish context. And French soccer goes on strike over a populist tax on million-euro salaries.; The National Taxpayer Advocate released its annual report today, pleading with Congress to stop cutting the I.R.S. budget.; How the I.R.S.’s use of property seizures, levies, and liens has changed over the last 20 years. Also: my new book gets some attention (and is now available for the Kindle too).; Notes on the Beit Sahour tax strike, tax noncompliant I.R.S employees, virtue ethics for children, war tax resistance as a Christian shibboleth, whether war tax resistance is legally compulsory, how to force the U.S. tax system to the tipping point, cigarette smuggling, early feminist tax resisters Abby & Julia Smith and Abby Kelley Foster, revocation of passports from U.S. tax resisters, the massive ongoing I.R.S.-impersonating phone shakedown scam, and updated numbers on how the I.R.S.’s use of liens, levies, and seizures has changed over the years.; Fewest I.R.S. enforcement officers since 1970s. Cost of renouncing U.S. citizenship goes up more than 500%. War tax resisters to gather in New England. ⅓ of filers will owe Obamacare overpayments in April. Banks liable if they fail to freeze levied accounts quickly. War tax resister at Seattle Anarchist Bookfair. New Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns released on-line.; Some updated numbers on how often the I.R.S. has been resorting to levies, liens, and property seizures in recent years.; I.R.S. practices when seizing Social Security benefits for back taxes are haphazard and inconsistent.; The I.R.S. made fewer property seizures, served fewer levies, and filed fewer liens last year than the year before, continuing a recent trend. Also: another example of a suspicious envelope of white powder causing the evacuation of an I.R.S. building.; The I.R.S. made fewer property seizures, served fewer levies, and filed fewer liens last year than the year before, continuing a trend over the last several years.; Tax resistance news from all over the world, including also news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement and notes about declining taxpayer morale in the U.S. Also: some numbers have just been released about how many levies, liens, and property seizures the I.R.S. resorted to last year.; A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. The I.R.S. tries to put some teeth in the government’s new power to revoke passports from tax scofflaws. Local governments battle I.R.S. over lien-filing fees. And more news about tax resistance and tax resisters.; NWTRCC national gathering next weekend in Oregon. Nathan Goodman on the costs of American empire. A suspicious new tax resistance campaign. The war on traffic ticket cameras continues. I.R.S. liens and deceptive junkmail. Ed & Elaine “show me the law” Brown may get out of prison after all. And the government of Ontario battles Canada’s federal government over carbon taxes.; The I.R.S. Data Book is out, with numbers about how many levies, liens, and property seizures the I.R.S. resorted to last year. Here’s how that compares to other recent years. I’m definitely looking forward to next year’s numbers.

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