If you're sitting around wondering where your stimulus check went, chances are you didn't receive it because the IRS is busy trying to steal money from inmates. Even though the law states nothing about revoking inmates from receiving checks, the IRS is choosing to skirt the law and instead steal the money back.
According to 13newsnow:
“I can’t give you the legal basis. All I can tell you is this is the language the Treasury and ourselves have been using,” IRS spokesman Eric Smith said. “It’s just the same list as in the Social Security Act.”Tax attorney Kelly Erb, who's written about the issue on her website, says there's no legal basis for asking for the checks back.“I think it's really disingenuous of the IRS," Erb said Tuesday. "It's not a rule just because the IRS puts it on the website. In fact, the IRS actually says that stuff on its website isn't legal authority. So there's no actual rule — it's just guidance — and that guidance can change at any time.”After Congress passed the $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package in March, checks of up to $1,200 were automatically sent in most cases to people who filed income tax returns for 2018 or 2019, including some who are incarcerated. A couple of weeks later, the IRS directed state correction departments to intercept payments to prisoners and return them.
The IRS spokesperson himself admitted they have no legal basis whatsoever to do this, yet they are doing it anyways. No government agency has the right to skirt the law, and in this case the IRS is clearly skirting it. That money was doled out, and it now has a right to be kept by those whom it was given to.
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