Treasury Inspector General Starts Investigation of Illegal IRS Data Tampering

Mike McKinney of the Treasury’s Inspector General office in Washington DC, recently contacted Victoria and Richard Osborn of TPI, a Colorado Springs forensic accounting firm, to inform them that materials produced by TPI were sent to Treasury field investigators looking into alleged illegal data tampering by IRS personnel.

The Osborns have produced documentation and given sworn testimony that the IRS routinely violates citizens’ due process rights by willfully and intentionally manipulating taxpayers’ Individual Master Files (IMF). This unlawful data tampering is for the purposes of: fabricating time-barred tax assessments; fraudulently certifying official records sent to federal courts to support illegal assessments; "short paying" interest legally owed to taxpayers; seizing Social Security benefits from taxpayers in direct violation of US law and creating fraudulent penalty and interest payments against taxpayers.

This evidence was made public by the Osborns at February’s We The People Foundation's Truth-in-Taxation Hearing and the April 8th WTP press conference from the National Press Club in Washington. The internet broadcast of the press conference was viewed by over 20,000 people.

The lead Treasury IG official overseeing the investigation is:

Nancy Nakamura
Department of Treasury
Office of Inspector General
401 W. Peachtree St.
Room 540 MS190-R
Atlanta, GA 30308
PH: 404-338-7416

Key to the investigation is a video tape produced by TPI that details and fully explains the fraud.

Osborn and his wife Victoria, a forensic accountant, have personally delivered or mailed the tape to every member of the Senate IRS oversight sub-committee, IRS Commissioner Rossotti, Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

At the Senate Finance committee hearings in 1997 and 1998 it was publicly promised that if any proof of IRS illegal or wrongful behavior could be found the committee would act. The Osborns and TPI have documented the fraud and delivered that evidence. Read the sworn affidavit of Victoria Osborn.

It shows willful and intentional computer fraud being committed by IRS agents in the Collection and Examination divisions. Documentation establishes that as far back as 1974, IRS agents have knowingly input fraudulent information on taxpayers master computer files for the purpose of fabricating illegal and fraudulent tax assessments and then concealing that illegal activity.

Before the 1998, IRS Reform and Restructing Act, details of the computer fraud were not available because the public had no access to the full computer records nor the "code books" and computer operations manuals necessary to decipher the encrypted data. Details of IRS’ unlawful practices can be seen at TPI’s website, www.tpirsrelief.com.

The recent "redesign" of the official IRS public website has resulted in the removal or the "reorganization" of most of the critical information that TPI used to discover the fraud.

The illegal acts found to date by TPI committed against taxpayers by the IRS include, but are not limited to:

• Computer fraud for the purpose of making and concealing fraudulent assessments that are prohibited by statutory time limits.
• Fraudulent "certificates of official record" sent to the federal courts which claim proper and lawful assessments when in fact, the assessments were illegally created.
• Illegal levy of social security old-age benefits in direct violation of 42 USC 407.
• Illegal levies that exceed the 15% limit allowed on continuous levies by statute.
• Illegal enforcement of levies and seizures without lawful court orders.
• Intentional fraudulent entry of dates on taxpayers master files to short pay taxpayers the lawful interest owed to them by the IRS.
• Intentional manipulation of taxpayers master file accounting to create fraudulent penalties and interest against a taxpayer to force payment in full before the fraudulent accounting is corrected.
• Violation of the three year statutory limit for deficiency proceedings.
• Coercing taxpayers to illegally sign form 872 past the three year statute of limitations, which the IRS uses to begin deficiency proceedings in violation of the law.
• Transferring taxpayer monies to previous tax years beyond statutory regulation to collect monies that are barred by statute from collection.
• Violation of the law in collection due process hearings, by refusing to substantiate that the assessments at issue are lawful.
• Refusing to approve claims for refund submitted with proof the IRS violated the law in the assessment or collection of taxes.
• Illegally transferring taxpayer payments to allow agents to assess unlawful penalties and interest against taxpayers, then telling taxpayers they must pay the unlawful penalties and interest before the IRS will listen to their objections. In reality, it takes a lawsuit to force the IRS to refund monies they extort via this scheme.
• Illegally offering to close criminal fraud investigations if the taxpayer will agree to pay monies they do not owe.
• Violation of the sixty-day statutory obligation to make an assessment from the date the deficiency is upheld.

Readers of this article are urged to contact the appropriate media and the Treasury Inspector General’s Office to ensure that this investigation proceeds properly and that their conclusions and research are fully available to the public.

Copies of the VHS video tape are $20 and can be obtained from:

TPI
1580 Oak Hills Dr.
Colorado Springs, Co 80919
800-447-6181
tpi@tpirsrelief.com
www.tpirsrelief.com