https://wcti12.com/news/nation-world/irs-in-crisis-file-as-quickly-as-possible-says-tax-specialist

IRS in crisis: 'File as quickly as possible,' says tax specialist

WASHINGTON (TND) — Tax filing season starts Jan. 24, and experts say the IRS is in crisis as they face staffing shortages and a backlog of six million unprocessed tax returns from 2020.

“Unfortunately, this has been a slow-moving train wreck for decades now,” said Brandon Arnold from the National Taxpayers Union to The National Desk. “Right now, you're 42% of printers not functioning; you have software technology at the IRS that is rooted back in the 1960s."

On top of a backlog of millions of unprocessed individual returns, the Internal Revenue Service had 2.3 million unprocessed amended returns and two million unprocessed employer’s quarterly returns, according to a report by the National Taxpayer Advocate.

“Typically they’re only a million tax returns behind, so you want to get in and file as quickly as possible,” said tax specialist Charrisa Rand.

The Biden administration has proposed spending billions of dollars to fix the IRS and help the agency close the tax gap. The Treasury Department says $600 billion in unpaid taxes are left on the table each year; $160 billion of which are from the top 1%.

“I think what our focus is on here is ensuring that any American pays the taxes that they are owed, and if they're paying the taxes that they're owed, then they have little to worry about,” said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

But experts say go after unpaid taxes later and help working-class American families file now.

“That means making sure we have enough people in the call centers. It means modernizing their software and IT. It doesn't mean going after taxpayers for enforcement issues right now,” said Arnold.

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Same

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Holy shit I watched this whole clip - had a good laugh, thanks for posting

Texas woman arrested for allegedly trying to purchase child at Walmart checkout, deputies say

Rebecca Taylor, 49, is charged with sale or purchase of a child, a third-degree felony

CROCKETT, Texas – A Texas woman is now out on bond after sheriff’s deputies said she tried to purchase another woman’s child while waiting in a checkout line at Walmart.

According to a report from KSAT’s sister station KPRC, Rebecca Taylor, 49, came up to the woman’s shopping cart in the checkout line. The woman’s cart had two children inside at the time.

Taylor started to make comments about one of the woman’s two children before allegedly asking if she could buy him for $250,000, KPRC reports.

The mother refused her offer and Taylor pressed further. She increased the offer to $500,000 and allegedly threatened to take the infant, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies said the mother still refused and was able to leave the store with her children safely. That’s when she notified authorities of what happened.

Taylor was arrested and charged with sale or purchase of a child, a third-degree felony in Texas.

As of Thursday, records show she was released on a $50,000 bond.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/01/22/texas-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-purchase-child-at-walmart-checkout-deputies-say

>>15436520 (me)

The real story is so stalkerish and evil

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https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news/crockett-woman-arrested-for-trying-to-buy-another-womans-child-at-walmart

Crockett woman arrested for allegedly trying to buy another woman’s child at Walmart

CROCKETT, Texas (KETK) – A woman was arrested in Crockett for allegedly attempting to purchase another woman’s child at Walmart while they were in the self-checkout line.

The incident happened last week, according to The Messenger.

Police records show Rebecca Lanette Taylor, 49, of Crockett was detained on Jan. 18 and charged with the sale or purchase of a child, which is a third-degree felony. Taylor was booked into the Houston County Jail and is being held on a $50,000 bond.

An affidavit of probable cause filed by Lt. Ahleea Price with the Crockett Police Department described how she got a phone call from the mother of the child “advising a white woman with blonde hair approached her in the Crockett Walmart, wanting to purchase her son.”

The mother of the child told Price, she was waiting to use the self-checkout. She had a baby in a car seat and her one-year-old in the cart.

Taylor “began commenting on her son’s blonde hair and blue eyes. She asked how much she could purchase him for. (The mom) tried to laugh this comment off, thinking Taylor was joking. Taylor told her that she had $250,000 in the car and she would pay that much for him. (The mom) told her no amount of money would do,” wrote authorities.

Taylor continued to bring up the topic, and the mother told her to stay away from her son. Taylor said, she had been looking forward to buying a baby for some time, according to law enforcement.

The mother later went to inform Lt. Price that Taylor was with another woman who appeared to be Hispanic. The second woman asked what the child’s name was, but the mother did not share this information with them.

Taylor and the other woman somehow knew the child’s name and called it out.

The mother waited for the two women to leave Walmart, then she also left and headed to her car. In the parking lot, “Taylor began screaming at (the mom), saying if she wouldn’t take $250,000 for him, then she would give her $500,000 because she wanted him and she was going to take him,” said the affidavit.

The mother locked her children in her car. Taylor stood behind a black SUV that was next to the mom’s vehicle. Taylor kept saying she wanted the child and would pay $500,000 for him. She then got into the black SUV and left.

Price saw the surveillance footage from Walmart and said in the affidavit that it matched with what the mother had said.

The officer later went to Taylor’s residence to ask her questions about the situation.

“She told me that she doesn’t like thieves, then she stated I could speak with her attorney and to get off her ‘precipice.’ She slammed the door shut,” Price said in the affidavit.

Price also shared details about the incident with Houston County District Attorney Donna Kaspar, and a warrant was signed for Taylor’s arrest.

According to Section 12.34 of the Texas Penal Code, “An individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the third degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the institutional division for any term of not more than 10 years or less than two years. In addition to imprisonment, an individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the third degree may be punished by a fine not to exceed $10,000.”

>>15436774 (me)

>"PRECIPICE"

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