“The elderly Thai immigrants sunk their life savings into designer wedding dresses and were left penniless when the IRS sold them all, according to the couple’s attorney. The legal filing claims that the agent on the case originally recognized that the entire inventory would not need to be sold to satisfy the debt. However, Freeman obtained internal IRS communications through a Freedom of Information Act Request and found that IRS higher-ups decided that the agency should ‘shut down this failing business.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/19/feds-getting-sued-for-improper-irs-seizu
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