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IRS GETS HAMMERED BY THE D.C. CIRCUIT: In this case it took the Internal Revenue Service?s (?IRS??

By Glenn Reynolds

IRS GETS HAMMERED BY THE D.C. CIRCUIT:

In this case it took the Internal Revenue Service’s (”IRS” or “the Service”) aggressive interpretation of the tax code to part millions of Americans with billions of dollars in excise tax collections. Even this remarkable feat did not end the IRS’s creativity. When it finally conceded defeat on the legal front, the IRS got really inventive and developed a refund scheme under which almost half the funds remained unclaimed.

In sum, the IRS unlawfully expropriated billions of dollars from taxpayers, conceded the illegitimacy of its actions, and developed a mandatory process as the sole avenue by which the agency would consider refunding its ill-gotten gains.

Michael Silence asks, “And these people want to run more of our lives?”

Much more at TaxProf.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 08, 2009 (boomark / email).