Ron Estes Grills IRS Head On Percentage Of IRS Agents Still Working Remotely
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
- During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing Thursday, Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) asked IRS head Danny Werfel how many IRS agents have returned to fully in-office work.
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FJB - If he's Competent, Charge Him. If he's Incompetent, Impeach him!
How are 50% of irs employees keeping personal taxpayers information safe working from home?
Hello! Thank you!!! It’s probably stored in their garages! 🤦🏼♀️
@@RitaPWingsNthingsArtist lol
Thumb drives on keychain. I'm sure they're soooo careful, too.
I tried to sell your info but it ain't worth squat.
My opinion all government employees should be back in the office.
There should be no home working.
Your right all those women cleaning , dusting and raising kids should be made to go out and get a real job. It's obvious you can get nothing done at home.
FJB - Charge him for Treason after the Border is Closed!
YOU'RE NOT AMERICAN
WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN
COUNTRY
@@andrewblanchard2398How do you know he's not American? Are you some kind of mind reader? He has a right to his opinion; worry about yourself, troll! I AM AMERICAN, AND HE'S RIGHT, I AGREE WITH HIM!
Yes, 50% of IRS agents are in they office where they should be, and 50% are members of the pajama party and "working" from home. The pandemic is over, why are these people allowed to "work" from home? I guess grocery shopping, dog walking, misc. shopping, etc., are all considered "working". Give me a break. I've run into plenty of people in stores, libraries, gyms in the middle of the day, who are "working" from home. 🙄
I'm new to the internet. This is what's called a troll response, right?
@@kinarism
And if you’re new to the internet, like you say, then how do u know about trolling and why do you think it’s trolling when h r doing the same thing?
@@kinarism New to the internet, yet your account is 16 years old? Liars.
Nothing like calling a government agency and having them yawning while you’re asking questions. You know they’re still in bed or the bathroom.
These government officials gaslight us like theirs no Internet where we can check their claims. As if theirs not an Internet. Why would we trust them to make sure their their website would work😂😂😂😂
We shouldn't have an I.R.S., paying taxes is voluntary.
Start a business sometime and don't have anybody trying to collect receivables see how long you stay in business.
Isn't Working from home after a mandate to return considered taking files out of the office which is illegal!?
Well, give this office mega millions and the problems get worse…Where are these remote areas located? Are they overseas like every company in the US when we call to resolve problems? When asked if the money is resolving issues they received I didn’t hear him say “YES”…At a previous hearing, it was announced 96,000 IRS EMPLOYEES would be hired to catch tax cheaters but what good is that after the deal they gave Hunter Biden? Will people get the same deal???
Let's give them more money so they can waste it just like all these other agencies that are out here that American taxpayers fund
50 %,what a joke!
Well at least those remotly working aren’t armed. Are they? 🤔
Those employees are being contracted out to foreign countries bcs the IRS is a corporation and can get cheaper labor that way. So they can be working in the same office building as scamming companies that call to trick you into parting with your money. Don’t you think that’s a bit suspicious? Hey Mr scammer, here’s some dumb American personal info. He’s got money coming back to them so you can try and scam them out of it. Just for instance of course but it does happen that way.
When you have affirmative action hires troubleshooting the system. Might as well be a Mcflurry operator.😅😅😅
Where’s the option to opt out since taxes are suppose to be voluntary? I’d like to opt out of this since I didn’t give permission to have my personal info given to someone not secured by this CORPORATION Called the IRS. I also didn’t vote for new armed officers and our government hasn’t been protecting our best interests for a long time now including securing our safety. We are ignored when calling our government “reps” to ask or protest things being pushed through in the middle of the night. And I don’t recall being asked if I’d like to have my tax dollars going to a two tiered justice system that’s pushing lawsuits against an ex president and running candidate when other lawsuits have had to wait for several years to be heard that seem much more important. Also I wasn’t asked if I’d like to send my tax dollars to aid in other countries wars and borders when our own is being ignored. Clearly we are not being represented anymore so I’d like to opt out please? Where’s that option? 🙄🤷♀️ And that’s not even saying anything about the forced social security money that’s being borrowed from us and saying the majority of Americans wont see this money. But hey we’ve got plenty of money for illegals entering our country somehow 🤔
Well truthfully the Lord says we are to pay to Caesars what is Caesars and to God what is God.
Taxes are to be reasonable not to be selfish gain
We truthfully pay enough at stores.
@@whistlep4494 agreed I suppose what my biggest problem is that our reps have been bought (most of them) and taught to do things that make them look like they’re doing something but they really aren’t. I’m sick of being ignored what most of what I’m hearing from other Americans is the same as me. Control the border, stop sending money we don’t have to fund wars ( actually funding money laundering and trafficking ) while we have to fight just to survive. Who knows what’s been let into this country. We’re seeing what these people are doing to the statescities that are taking them in and when they’ve bled em dry they’ll move on to the next. These people are not here to live imo. I believe they’re being paid to take us out. So why fund them through taxes. If they won’t listen to us and continue to ignore our constitution and rights then why fund them? If they don’t have money Caesar’s money then they can’t pay for the evil unleashed on us. And it’s happening all around the world. Not just our country. Tired of the evil and taking advantage of one of the most generous bleeding hearts in the world. Americans might be a lot but we do have big hearts. And now we’re being taken advantage of. So there’s that.
GREAT question for the IRS.
He does not answer the question re ALL IRS workers back at their desk..he says they are all.working!! A devious equivocation!!
The commissioner has a pneumatic tube straight to Tel Aviv.
"We have many, *MANY* employees onsite. Now this first *SLIIIIIDE* !" I had no idea that Commandant Lassard of Police Academy became the IRS Commissioner. 🤣
What law says we have to pay taxes?
REFUSE TO PAY TAXES
ENJOY PRISON
Are you jealous that Trump's signature tax bill of 2017 lets he and his friends pay less than you?
Why should I be paying TAXES when it's going to ILLEGALS because of an INVASION (AN OPEN BORDER). ALSO, SENDING IT TO PROTECT FOREIGN COUNTRY BORDERS.
EVERYONE SHOULD STOP PAYING TAXES!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Article 1, section 8, clause 1 of the US Constitution. Thanks for asking.
@@charlieschultz9232 The adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, however, put an end to speculation whether the Court would eventually reverse Pollock. Indeed, in its initial appraisal13 of the Amendment, the Court classified income taxes as being inherently indirect, stating:
[T]he command of the Amendment that all income taxes shall not be subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the taxed income may be derived, forbids the application to such taxes of the rule applied in the Pollock Case by which alone such taxes were removed from the great class of excises, duties and imports subject to the rule of uniformity and were placed under the other or direct class.14
The Court further observed: [T]he Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged . . . .15. From Constitution.congress.gov.
In short, direct taxes were apportioned to the states, indirect taxes were not. This amendment put income taxes in the “indirect” category. At least as I understand it. Yet incomes were taxable by the federal government since the date the constitution was ratified. Doesn’t make me like income tax though.
Lord Lord help us IRS pathetic workers mobile. 😊
Our system is broken, We have no ideal and have no control where taxpayer money is going. Way past time to get this out of control government back in line!
How secure are our tax returns if they are being processed by offsite workers?
HA! Big Government trying to tell me what I can and can't do.
This issue ruined 2 weeks of my life in Jan.
Being from Wichita, I'm frustrated that Rep. Estes didn't address how the IRS would try to penalize companies and individuals making good faith efforts to file on time and the system won't let them. How much more time and dollars will the IRS inflict on taxpayers trying to defend themselves from the incompetence that is raging in the federal government.
Easiest solution is no taxes.
Omg !
Gov official after gov official shows up at these hearings unprepared for what should be expected questioning. Or, are they prepared with routine non-answers?
No. Accountability.
Wow, at the busiest time of the year… only 50% is in house. Thats dusturbing! 🤔🤦🏼♀️
Remote work is a fantastic way to hire better talent when you have a limited budget. In cybersecurity, I have never personally met an engineer that isn't remote. I enjoy my field and also have not considered moving to a larger tech company because I appreciate not having a commute. Meanwhile, I can be more efficient compared to when in an office where people might bring in cake for a co-worker's birthday, show you pictures of their dog, and chat around a coffee machine. I have a hard time taking it seriously when people think being in an office is going to stop people from slacking off or make them more observable somehow. Unless you work a job where a supervisor is literally staring at you. Watching you do physical visible work, then the way of observing your productivity is the same remote or in person. They look at what you accomplish, and they might even have metrics built into the digital systems you use.
@@DanWolf-codeNerd get/ but don’t… This Is A Government Organization. It’s Tax Season, And there have been multiple complaints that THEY ARE UNAVAILABLE !
And we are suppose to trust you....scary....
Looking down while talking & not making eye contact to the person he's talking to is a sure sign he's LYING.
0:18 not everybody LoL, lots of IRS agents failed to file their taxes 🙄
Why was he edited? There’s a skip there in the beginning
Tax cheats?, like those in office ?
Ought to ask them what the heck their need for guns is.
😮😮😮
This pair spent 4:30 not asking or answering the question, then 30 seconds bantering over a partial answer. Should have been:
“Can IRS agents do their entire jobs remotely, including answering phone calls & accessing taxpayer files?”
I guess my question would be, Why is the American taxpayer funding government buildings when they are only being used by 50% of the employees and yet I think the FBI has asked us to pay for a new building for them? Maybe they can share the IRS buildings. I think every government employee should be back to work in person.
And not confidential????
I understand that if people can be productive working from home than have at it. From my experience the people that work from home have a bunch of different distractions. The laundry needs to be done, children need watching and so on. We have some employees that work from home but try to get a zoom meeting done while there’s kids running around their desk and screaming it’s kind of a distraction a zoom meeting takes double or triple the amount of time it would normally take. It’s convenient to be able to work from home. No need to worry about parking, gas to get to work, wear and tear on your vehicle, not having to get up so early in the mornings or even dressing in proper office attire. How about what the employers are going through, all that empty office space that’s being paid for, keeping the lights and air conditioning on just in case you decide to actually come to work. In the immortal words of Elon musk “ come to work or find another job”
I CALL FOR NO PAYMENT OF TAXES BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NO TAXATION WITH REPRESENTATION OUR SO-CALLED GOVERNMENT IS NOT REPRESENTING THE INTREST OF THE PEOPLE, REMEMBER NOW THAT WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC YOU KNOW FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE OUR INTREST ARE BEING ADDRESSED!
Let them work from home, makes them happier agents❤️
Fruit cake
My accountant and his full office staff work remotely. It’s fabulously efficient and he doesn’t need to show up armed at anyone’s door. It’s a win-win for us all.
And how does that help the poor aged disabled people that don't have computers
Sleeper cells are in place no doubt. Prepare for economic collapse. 😢😮
The FIT is an excise tax that does NOT fall on the vast majority of economic ACTIVITIES. Rather, it can only fall on FEDERALLY PRIVILEGED activities and investment type gains and profit. Furthermore, the federal govt does not have jurisdiction over non-federal business and workers in the various union states and cannot legally tax them. The 16thA does not alter the Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3, and Setion 9 Clause 4 prohibition against a direct non-apportioned capitation. The custom defined term "wages" in Title 26 (the tax code) Section 3401 (a) and section 3121 (a) refers ONLY to federal type employees.
IOW folks, your whole life you have been scammed out of 10 to 40% of your annual earnings because you are ignorant of what the tax laws actually say and mean and on what it can legitimately fall on. Now be honest, did you already know that Title 26 is the tax code?
If there not showing up at the office their not working
I don't work remotely but, i dont see what the big deal is about it either. I think it's pretty smart and careers that are able to do this should definitely keep it as an option for employees.
Come on , government employees , i've got to be the laziest incompetent people I ever laid eyes on.
Omg WAKE UP!! So you have no problem with an agent in Puerto Rico or other counties having all your personal information?!! You feel it’s secured?!! Heck they can’t even control cyber security in this country. But let’s just let foreign companies handle our info FROM HOME. Are you an American citizen? I can tell you that my husband can’t even get into his company laptop when he’s home to do his vacation time! And his company is just a construction company. Not a government agency and has better security. 🤷♀️
@@kimberlycoffman9478 hey, guess what? Puerto Rico is part of the United States! Also, I work from home, and I log into a VPN and then authenticate again with two factor which adjusts firewalls to allow my current IP address. This allows me to be secure even if I were to be working on a compromised network. Additionally, while working remote, I have been able to maintain my own citizenship as an American. I know other Americans that work remote. Those comments are a bit snarky since the IRS does not allow citizens of other countries to work for them, you don't seem to know that Puerto Rico is part of America. Also, you can be secure while working remote. Companies that cannot provide a secure VPN and dynamic firewall (or even a firewall that gets manually adjusted if an employee has to travel but is otherwise pointed at their home IP) probably don't have secure internal networks either. I have been working in cybersecurity for several years and I have never met another engineer in my field that doesn't work from home. It's a way of recruiting top talent. The IRS is not a very attractive job. If they have jobs that can be done remote, then I say we give them a simple tool to recruit more people.
More home work. Employees should be able to work where they want
Not federal employees that have access to Americans personal information. That would be me. I’m not good having my info compromised like that. And if someone uses my info for gain will the IRS CORPORATION pay me for damages? Will they even tell me or how would I know? A company that steals from us and you think it’s safe at a home in another country. 😳 NOPE
Israeli's are coming😢
Did you get lost and watch a different video than I did?
@@DanWolf-codeNerd IRS guy is dual citizen Israeli. So is all of Bidens top administration. Even Kamala's husband.
@@DanWolf-codeNerd Blinken, Garland,Mayorkas, google Jews in Biden administration.
Quite frankly if you ask me all these portals should work perfectly for the simple fact is it's our damn money that you're using to promote these portals in the first damn place and if you don't like that comment how about we go to a flat tax 7% out of everybody's paycheck per pay. Regardless if it's weekly bi-weekly or monthly or yearly salary just for the federal government and 3% tax rate for States an local government that takes roughly about $10 out of everybody's damn paycheck per $100 so if you make $400 you pay $40 in taxes for State local and federal government all together and that even means the billionaires would never be off the hook nor will the millionaires nor will these people that make $100,000 or better or hell even the low income people like me that makes roughly 13,000 a year to 16000 a year we would only be on the hook for a total of 10% of the money that we earn in the federal government steals from us to keep their self alive
I live in one of the 9 states where we have NO State Tax.
@@margueritevassar4972 well I wish you would clarify by what you mean no state tax because quite frankly if they're charging you tax on your groceries or any product that you buy in any store in your state do you pay taxes on that product if so you are paying a state tax if that's not the case where you're not paying any sales tax whatsoever I would say hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the simple fact is every state can do that then
@@user-rn1sl9bt8s we don’t have a state income.tax. I would rather pay taxes on my groceries than on my income . There is a big difference…the only hallelujah I’ve heard is from people from blue states, especially NY, who have moved here and happy they no longer have to pay state income taxes…As a matter of fact, I don’t hear anyone complaining about it or begging for the state to start paying another income tax😂
Not one American citizen. Should pay this Government of Liars, thieves, And Traitor, s One red cent. Accountability Must Happen. Or we are truly Doomed as a Nation
I wanna see Joe Bidens and his family tax returns and the rest of the Demoncratic party taxes especially them and Pelosi's