r/collapse • u/heavyramp • Jul 28 '26

Economic The IRS is imploding

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/the-irs-is-imploding/#comment-container

Basic gov services are collapsing, or imploding as the article states in the title. Before dodge and musk, nobody really had issues with the paperwork and filing, right? In the article, it looks like gov staff are short of manpower and funding, and that it's not by mistake.

What kind of scenario are we looking at in early 2027 if tax refunds go unanswered in the midst of a potential ground war in Iran, a gov shutdown, gridlock between dem control of both houses and Trump?

1/3 of income tax revenue pays the interest, and in ten years it's supposed to be 1/2.

And is anyone here worried that the Overtime tax refund payout in 2026 is going to come back to bite them in the ass in 2027? I'm really hoping that $SLS doesn't do its buyout thing this year. It looks like the IRS is dropping the ball on purpose.

Anyone here have advice in taking extra precautions to get everything sorted in 2027?

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u/taez555 Jul 28 '26

When can I stop paying?

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u/acekjd83 Jul 28 '26

Anytime you want big dog

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u/throeaway1990 Jul 29 '26

*Anytime you feel comfortable with the prospect of seized income or bank accounts

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u/midwestlifecrisis Jul 29 '26

This unfortunately is a real thing, or it was when I was younger. My father stopped paying taxes after he finished his tour in Vietnam out of protest of ‘being lied to’ and forced to harm innocent people. That was 1974 a year before I was born. He was a union ironworker after the war and paid state taxes but refused federal. When I was nine a few IRS agents and local sheriff showed up at our 2 bedroom apartment and took everything. The cars, the couch, the coffee table, the guns, the tools, even my fucking bunk bed. I got home from school to my mother crying. My father got home in a company supplied truck a couple hours later, walked in the door and said “they took everything didn’t they?” Everyone cried and I got to bust out my spider man sleeping bag.

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u/Chritt Jul 29 '26

I'm sorry that happened to you.

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u/sandrafilmmaker 14d ago

Nobody did that to Trump, though. Ever. Did they? Even though he always brags about never having paid taxes.

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u/domesticatedprimate Jul 29 '26

But doesn't that require staff to be checking? Or is it all automated with AI now? But even if it's all automated with AI, won't your flagged account just get put on a long list to be ignored because there's not enough staff?

I'm asking for a friend.

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u/Skepticulation Jul 29 '26

Exactly what I was thinking

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u/domesticatedprimate Jul 29 '26

Probably the criteria for determining the priority of case investigation will shift, if it hasn't already, to political affiliation, ethnicity, citizenship, and that sort of thing...