Has anyone here ever dealth with the IRS, beyond just filing taxes every year?

My family (mom and dad) have been fighting excruciatingly for the last 6 years, claims by the IRS that are totally un-founded and today found out that they will be now forced to sell their home. I know the courts hear "I am not guilty of these charges" very often, but in my parents case (to detailed to get into) they certainly are not. They have proved it accordingly to the laws in place time and time again. However the IRS has been relentless and have even told my parents attorneys that there was no major offense comitted, but that they are just "pissed off" at them and are going to "ruin him" as a result.


EDIT: Sorry about the double post...maybe a moderator can delete this one for me. :tu:

My parents got audited several years ago.

An odd coincidence about it is that the audit happened the same year my dad, who was a DEA agent at the time, refused a transfer to New York City and resigned instead.

What else is odd is that they'd never been audited before that, nor have they been since. Funny how that works out.

Yeah. They came at us with an audit last year. I'm trying to erase what amounts to extortion from my memory, so I may be a little off here in my details.

I turned in the information the IRS requested and about a month later I got what they called a "proposed notice of change" to my taxes for 2001. The total? $3,922 including penalties. Included in the roughly forty page letter were about eight zillion regulations we supposedly violated with the misfiling of a tax return that was worth a grand total of $1,200.

I had three different tax attornies review the information, but there was no avoiding the penalty. Each and every one of them told me it would be easier and cheaper to just pay it and be done. The IRS can be extortionists, plain and simple. There is no talking to them, there is no arguing your side, there's just... an air of "here's what you owe us, like it or not, we're gonna get it."

And got it they did. I now have an investment broker and tax attorney who handles all my money matters. I want nothing to do with it. If there's a screw up, it costs my broker/attorney, not me. Never, ever again. It is amazing what our sonofabitching gov't can do to an individual. The word "steamroll" comes immediately to mind.

-R