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IRS Warns Of 400% Flood In Phishing and Malware This Tax Year Alone (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: There has been a 400% surge in phishing and malware incidents in this tax season alone, the Internal Revenue Service warned this week. According to the IRS, there have been thousands of phony emails aimed at fooling taxpayers into thinking these are official communications from the IRS or others in the tax industry, including from many tax software companies.
A flat tax, where anyone could file their taxes on a postcard size form, would pretty much do away with this problem.
The article claims the IRS has these stats, but doesn't actually link back to a source article or anything. Anyone have more info that comes from an official source?
I wonder what brought that on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
my cousin Vinnie took care of it.
Not contacting any female helps you to get rid of phishing more than You people think.
"B.A.R."??? What does a Browning Automatic Rifle have to do with anything?
Isn't that a band for stoners?
The problem is while you are technically correct good luck fighting a corrupt entity that effectively has infinite money.
There are more important battles to fight.
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Don't steal -- the government has a monopoly on stealing and murder. It is legal when they do, but not you."
Oh, these modern day journalists... a link to the IRS website? Maybe?
Someone should teach the IRS never to use variation percentages outside the -50% – +100% range.
And unsurprisingly, they got it wrong: “1,026 up from 254 from a year earlier”, that makes roughly ×4, i.e. +300%; +400% is ×5.
Well, it could just be just the journalist that sucks at maths. At the very least, he did not check the figures.
No, taxation is forgiveness of debt.
Governments issue IOU's in the form of money. Then they demand that you periodically forgive some of that debt. This is their payment for rendering administrative services to the citizenry.
You just don't like paying taxes. This makes you approximately as mature as a toddler that cries when he gets his toys taken away from him.
The IRS does not and would not *EVER* request any information that is confidential between you and the IRS to be sent via email.
I'm not sure that the IRS even uses email to contact taxpayers at all, although if they did, it would probably be for things that are irrelevant to the matter of filing taxes, like maybe informing them of new services or something similar.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
This is exactly why I fill using paper.
The current system was set up to control behavior, not raise revenue. That's why we don't think of tax enforcement at the federal level as the banal process it should be, as we do with local taxes. No one fears their county tax assessor like they fear a visit from the IRS because state and local tax laws are almost black and white compared to the federal income tax. If the local tax man visits you, you should have known better because 4th grade level math is the max you need to calculate your property tax bill in most areas.
If the system were rational, there would be a flat federal income tax of 17.5% (10% to the treasury, 7.5% to FICA programs) on all earned income and capital gains. Employers would deduct 17.5% from your paycheck; banks would take 17.5% of all interest, brokerages would automatically take 17.5% of all measured profit.
It would simultaneously let us lay off 50-75% of the IRS, make 99% of the taxpayers never dread April 15th and make no one assume that it's really the IRS talking to them unless someone shows up with a badge and a briefcase, saying it's audit time.
yes and roads and bridges and police and schools and firefighters and military would be magically provided by the lord of a jesus
You're free to move to some island and pay for your own municipal parks, roads, sewage/recycling/garbage collection. Not to mention zoos, aquariums, wildlife refuges, national parks. You can also stand up your own one-man military.
Don't get me wrong, I think my tax dollars are grossly misappropriated and I'd rather not be paying many senators salaries... but to make the blanket statement that tax is theft is to ignore all those things that your taxes cover to make your life better.
What was the breakdown in terms of desktop Operating Systems in relation to these phishing and malware attacks?
So that's what, four Noahs? Or just four Katrinas?
Seriously, who writes this drivel?
It's illegal to pay taxes
You better hope not, because it's also illegal to skip paying taxes. So if you are right, you're going to jail because there's no way to avoid it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yes.. 400% == 4 times more.
Thanks to all that fresh OPM info out there, I think 4 times more means we are lucky.
I've already had one "The CRA sent you a $500 refund" scam make it through my ISP's spam filters. Appeared to be coming out of Japan.
CrS
Please do me a favor, if you can. Somewhere, in the back of your mind, stuff this away: They're not a Libertarian. They're a Randian or an Embarrassed Republican who has co-opted the moniker.
It might be hard to tuck that away, they are a noisy bunch. But, as I've explained many times, liberty is the actual ideal for Libertarians. That's for all, not for a select or wealthy few. If it's only for a select few, chance are that it's not anything more than abuse under the guise of liberty.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."