{"id":1437,"date":"2009-12-14T08:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T08:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2009-12-14T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T08:26:21","slug":"the_war_on_personal_wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"The War On Personal Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BA45320091211\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the IRS is hiring people to be part of a new unit it is setting up for the purpose of &#8216;catching rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in complex business entities.&#8217;&nbsp; Admittedly, cheating on taxes is something that should be stopped, but to focus specifically on one group of people seems a bit odd.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The unit will focus on trusts, real estate investments, privately held companies and other business entities controlled by rich individuals.&nbsp; Part of the budget bill passed in Congress in recent days included adding $387 millions dollars to the IRS budget for the fiscal year that started October 1.&nbsp; Part of this money will go to fund this new unit aimed at wealthy taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The IRS is also opening new criminal offices in Beijing, Panama City and Sydney to focus on funds flowing out of Europe and into Asia, in part because of a heightened focus on international enforcement in Europe.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It would be cheaper to change the tax code so that people would not have the incentive to cheat!&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Reuters&nbsp;reported that the IRS is hiring people to be part of a new unit it is setting up for the purpose of &#8216;catching rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in complex business entities.&#8217;&nbsp; Admittedly, cheating on taxes is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}