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Karen Kline
Santa Fe, NM 87505
8/21/96
The Honorable Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury
15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Dear Mr. Rubin,
I want some answers here. In a five year period, with an average
yearly tax of $5,878.80, I was charged $7,346.01 in penalties and
interest. During that time I had a year when I made so little that my
taxes were $481.00, still, IRS charged me $266.23 extra that year;
the year I had five accidents, or the beginning of five accidents,
causing my income to decline severely, I had the second highest
year of penalties and interest, that is, $1,826.02, which shows me
that what I have been saying is true: I am being punished for being
poor when my income declines, when I am in pain and can't work
as efficiently as when I was not in pain, IRS punishes me by
increasing what I owe. $1,826.02 is almost two thirds of the
amount that IRS took from me in 1994, which taking put me out of
business. Further convincing me that what I am saying is true, is the
fact that the year I made the most money, my penalties and interest
declined, indicating that when I had more money IRS punished me
less.
I had a year, 1989, when I wanted to file for an extension, but
when I looked at the extension form it said I must send full
payment with it. I did not have the money to do that. Relying on
what the form told me, I did not file for an extension, and was
charged $948.38 before the date I would have been free to file on
had the extension form been available to me.
In the same year, 1989, my account was zeroed out on 3/25/91, yet
on 3/29/93 IRS began involving 1984 in 1989, causing me to have
amounts I once again owed. I find it interesting, looking at my IRS
Account for 1989, to see its last two entries: an interest assessment
of $3.86 on 2/14/94, that the next entry shows cleared on 2/14/86.
86? Really?
When I see this, when I see what my country has done to me, year
by year, up until it put me out of business, not because I didn't pay
my taxes, but because it penalized me for each and every accident,
hardship, lost real estate transaction, illness, and above all the
distress of not being able to reunite with my son, which failure was
brought about in part by the IRS itself, taking money from me
when I needed that money for myself and my son, I am as
depressed as I have ever been in my life.
Really, it is appalling that my money is taken when I am sick,
suffering, and losing business, in order to give it to other people
who are not working, to social workers who are misusing the
system, to IRS employees who couldn't create a good business if
their lives depended on it.
Looking at these numbers is so distressing that if I did not have the
mental fortitude I do, I would kill myself tonight.
Do you not see what you are doing to people? This is horrifying.
This is unconscionable. There is no excuse for it. If Charlie Rose
and whoever else was right, that the Treasury is where the real
intelligence is, then this is an even worse crime: you could and
should know better.
Karen Kline
Santa Fe, NM 87505
8/21/96
The Honorable Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury
15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Dear Mr. Rubin,
I want some answers here. In a five year period, with an average
yearly tax of $5,878.80, I was charged $7,346.01 in penalties and
interest. During that time I had a year when I made so little that my
taxes were $481.00, still, IRS charged me $266.23 extra that year;
the year I had five accidents, or the beginning of five accidents,
causing my income to decline severely, I had the second highest
year of penalties and interest, that is, $1,826.02, which shows me
that what I have been saying is true: I am being punished for being
poor when my income declines, when I am in pain and can't work
as efficiently as when I was not in pain, IRS punishes me by
increasing what I owe. $1,826.02 is almost two thirds of the
amount that IRS took from me in 1994, which taking put me out of
business. Further convincing me that what I am saying is true, is the
fact that the year I made the most money, my penalties and interest
declined, indicating that when I had more money IRS punished me
less.
I had a year, 1989, when I wanted to file for an extension, but
when I looked at the extension form it said I must send full
payment with it. I did not have the money to do that. Relying on
what the form told me, I did not file for an extension, and was
charged $948.38 before the date I would have been free to file on
had the extension form been available to me.
In the same year, 1989, my account was zeroed out on 3/25/91, yet
on 3/29/93 IRS began involving 1984 in 1989, causing me to have
amounts I once again owed. I find it interesting, looking at my IRS
Account for 1989, to see its last two entries: an interest assessment
of $3.86 on 2/14/94, that the next entry shows cleared on 2/14/86.
86? Really?
When I see this, when I see what my country has done to me, year
by year, up until it put me out of business, not because I didn't pay
my taxes, but because it penalized me for each and every accident,
hardship, lost real estate transaction, illness, and above all the
distress of not being able to reunite with my son, which failure was
brought about in part by the IRS itself, taking money from me
when I needed that money for myself and my son, I am as
depressed as I have ever been in my life.
Really, it is appalling that my money is taken when I am sick,
suffering, and losing business, in order to give it to other people
who are not working, to social workers who are misusing the
system, to IRS employees who couldn't create a good business if
their lives depended on it.
Looking at these numbers is so distressing that if I did not have the
mental fortitude I do, I would kill myself tonight.
Do you not see what you are doing to people? This is horrifying.
This is unconscionable. There is no excuse for it. If Charlie Rose
and whoever else was right, that the Treasury is where the real
intelligence is, then this is an even worse crime: you could and
should know better.
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Let me tell you, if IRS is going to destroy people, as they destroyed
me, then they sure as shooting should not have errors in their
accounts. Don't you agree? If I am charged these crippling penalties
for what IRS perceives as my failures in my responsibility to it,
what should it be charged for its failures in its responsibility to me?
Let me tell you, an apology for destroying my business, my health,
my well being, my belief in my country, is not enough. It is in fact,
an insult. IRS's apology is a pretense that what IRS did was not
really serious, when the fact is that what IRS did, and does to
many, many people, is serious. It is so serious, that I do not want to
continue to live like this, and I will not. When my property is
foreclosed or I run out of money, whichever comes first, I will kill
myself. I know how I will do it, and I am satisfied that my death
will be preferable to this kind of life, dominated by an unjust,
negligent, irresponsible, malignant, vengeful, and tawdry IRS.
Tawdry? Yes, IRS has neither integrity nor good in it, nor value, to
outweigh its evils. At the moment I have $90 and a Motion for
Summary Judgement in the foreclosure proceedings, to which
Motion I have replied.
In terms of the "many, many people" to whom IRS does what it
has done to me, how many of the 2.9 million people levied by IRS
in 1994, could make and substantiate the same claims of injustice
against IRS that I am making. Half? More than half?
One final question about IRS's accounting: why are IRS's Net
sheets "creative" with their numbers, showing interest and penalties
being assessed earlier than they were assessed in real life? Is this
kind of accounting acceptable in business? If it is, then is it
acceptable for me to send back Nets from my point of view:
showing all my payments under the earliest date? and giving the
impression that I should be sent back all penalties and interest that I
was charged. Accounting like that employed, for example, in IRS's
1990 Net is deceptive, and should not be acceptable from the IRS.
Yes, I am angry.
Look at 1985: zeroed out 2/9/87, reactivated 3/29/93. All because
IRS lost my 1984 return?
Judging by IRS's 4/4/86 entry in my 1984 account, "Payment with
return 23.94," they had received it. Yes, I was late, I'm sorry about
that. But should I have been levied in 1991, penalized over $7000,
and in the end put out of business? No. This is not simply a matter
of a lost return.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," I don't think so. What
IRS is doing is a horror, there is no other name for it, and there is
no excuse for it. Plus, your failure, Mr. Rubin, to answer any of my
letters (12/7/96, 6/8/96,7/1/96, 7/10/96, 8/5/96, or 8/15/96)
indicates that you accept what IRS does and indeed underwrite it.
I understand that you are Secretary of the Treasury and an
important person; I have gained a little better understanding of you
from sketches provided in Johnson's, The System, but none of that
changes the fact that I believe my life is important enough for you
to pay attention to the fact that IRS has destroyed what I need to
live.
Let me tell you, I like President Clinton, but I hate what you, the
Treasury and IRS, are doing to people. Unless you take it upon
yourself to stop this, you may very well find your job lost, because
people are listening to Kemp. Watch the news, listen to the
applause for, "Get rid of IRS!"
Sincerely, Karen Kline
Karen Kline
Enclosure: copy of a letter that amplifies ideas in this letter. I am
excising the name and address so that IRS cannot take action
against my friend the way it often takes action against people who
disagree with it. Plus copies of appropriate IRS accounts, each
exhibiting some of what I am saying.
Page 1 (Preceding Page)
Tax Accounts complained of -- (pages 4 to 7 of Bound Letters)
Let me tell you, if IRS is going to destroy people, as they destroyed
me, then they sure as shooting should not have errors in their
accounts. Don't you agree? If I am charged these crippling penalties
for what IRS perceives as my failures in my responsibility to it,
what should it be charged for its failures in its responsibility to me?
Let me tell you, an apology for destroying my business, my health,
my well being, my belief in my country, is not enough. It is in fact,
an insult. IRS's apology is a pretense that what IRS did was not
really serious, when the fact is that what IRS did, and does to
many, many people, is serious. It is so serious, that I do not want to
continue to live like this, and I will not. When my property is
foreclosed or I run out of money, whichever comes first, I will kill
myself. I know how I will do it, and I am satisfied that my death
will be preferable to this kind of life, dominated by an unjust,
negligent, irresponsible, malignant, vengeful, and tawdry IRS.
Tawdry? Yes, IRS has neither integrity nor good in it, nor value, to
outweigh its evils. At the moment I have $90 and a Motion for
Summary Judgement in the foreclosure proceedings, to which
Motion I have replied.
In terms of the "many, many people" to whom IRS does what it
has done to me, how many of the 2.9 million people levied by IRS
in 1994, could make and substantiate the same claims of injustice
against IRS that I am making. Half? More than half?
One final question about IRS's accounting: why are IRS's Net
sheets "creative" with their numbers, showing interest and penalties
being assessed earlier than they were assessed in real life? Is this
kind of accounting acceptable in business? If it is, then is it
acceptable for me to send back Nets from my point of view:
showing all my payments under the earliest date? and giving the
impression that I should be sent back all penalties and interest that I
was charged. Accounting like that employed, for example, in IRS's
1990 Net is deceptive, and should not be acceptable from the IRS.
Yes, I am angry.
Look at 1985: zeroed out 2/9/87, reactivated 3/29/93. All because
IRS lost my 1984 return?
Judging by IRS's 4/4/86 entry in my 1984 account, "Payment with
return 23.94," they had received it. Yes, I was late, I'm sorry about
that. But should I have been levied in 1991, penalized over $7000,
and in the end put out of business? No. This is not simply a matter
of a lost return.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," I don't think so. What
IRS is doing is a horror, there is no other name for it, and there is
no excuse for it. Plus, your failure, Mr. Rubin, to answer any of my
letters (12/7/96, 6/8/96,7/1/96, 7/10/96, 8/5/96, or 8/15/96)
indicates that you accept what IRS does and indeed underwrite it.
I understand that you are Secretary of the Treasury and an
important person; I have gained a little better understanding of you
from sketches provided in Johnson's, The System, but none of that
changes the fact that I believe my life is important enough for you
to pay attention to the fact that IRS has destroyed what I need to
live.
Let me tell you, I like President Clinton, but I hate what you, the
Treasury and IRS, are doing to people. Unless you take it upon
yourself to stop this, you may very well find your job lost, because
people are listening to Kemp. Watch the news, listen to the
applause for, "Get rid of IRS!"
Sincerely, Karen Kline
Karen Kline
Enclosure: copy of a letter that amplifies ideas in this letter. I am
excising the name and address so that IRS cannot take action
against my friend the way it often takes action against people who
disagree with it. Plus copies of appropriate IRS accounts, each
exhibiting some of what I am saying.
Page 1 (Preceding Page)
Tax Accounts complained of -- (pages 4 to 7 of Bound Letters)
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