Harv’s Metro Car Wash tax bill? 4 cents.
The IRS storming the Sacramento private business to collect on said bill? Priceless.
The IRS aren’t commenting on their recent escapade, probably thanking their lucky stars they can hide behind privacy and disclosure laws. However, Aaron Zeff, Harv’s owner, has a few comments all his own like, “They didn’t even get a car wash.”
According to The Sacramento Bee, the two dark-suited IRS agents came to the car wash on Wednesday on a matter of utmost importance. Harv’s Metro Car Wash owed the government 4 cents. And the bill had come due.
“They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff.
Condescending? The IRS?
The hand-delivered bill stated that Harv’s owed 4 cents from 2006, with penalties and taxes now equaling $203.31, a number Zeff finds not only comical but astronomical when considering the alleged original bill, a bill Zeff never received. Of course, that also doesn’t explain the Oct. 22, 2009 letter Zeff received from the IRS saying Harv’s “has filed all required returns and addressed any balances due.”
Would the IRS like to comment? Privacy and disclosure laws, laws that were apparently designed to protect the private citizen, are now conveniently protecting the IRS.
“It’s hilarious,” he says, “that two people hopped in a car and came down here for just 4 cents. I think (the IRS) may have a problem with priorities.”
Priorities may have kept them from driving their taxpayer-funded vehicle and burning taxpayer-purchased gas (the lowest price in Sacramento around $2.81 per gallon) to drive 9.29 miles, if coming from the 4330 Watt Avenue location, to demand a taxpayer fork over less than a nickle.
For the IRS, an organization comprised of bean counters, the drive to Harv’s Metro Car Wash for 4 cents may not appear cost effective when on the taxpayer dime, an amount still more than Harv’s tax bill.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Amazing!!
I’m locking my door.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Oh come on, that’s nothing. Try having a SWAT team dressed in black pop a few flash grenades through your window, bash in your door with a battering ram, storm into your home screaming at you, force you and your family down to the floor at gunpoint, and maybe shoot your dog for good measure — all for possessing a plant?
Happens much more often than you’d think, unless you’ve already resigned yourself to the fact that we live in a modern-day Police State.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Amazing!!
I’m getting rid of my plants.
Wait a minute.
Uh, Rhay, you weren’t talking geraniums were you?
March 15th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
No Monkey, Petunia’s.
This story is a perfect illustration of how the term government and common sense are mutually exclusive.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
can the President address this important financial issue please?
March 15th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Now we know where our tax pennies are going. Sheesh.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
NO NO NO NO NO! You got it all wrong. The ones who only pay 4 cents are 1) the major corporations, and 2) the super wealthy. Thanks to 10 yrs. of Republican rule.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Klo – you are obviously not in tax brackets above the lower ones or you’d understand that the average American is subjected to higher taxes than minimum wage earners have to pay.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:37 am
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March 16th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Rhayader,
How about coming home and having you door padlocked and a notice that your house has been repossessed by the bank. Later to find out it was a mix up in your address, so sorry.
And Klo, okay 10 years of republican rule. Hmm with the last 4 having both House and Senate controlled by the almighty Democrats. How come nothing was done then? Or do you only count when there is a Democrat in the oval office? then how come in the last year plus, with super majority in the Senate and a majority in the house nothing has been done? Ohh that’s right, Blame the Republicans. It is easier than accepting part of the responsibility.
And talking about taxes, how is it that the people that pay no taxes at all still demand a refund when tax refund credits are given? Refund means you get part of your money back. If you put no money in, how do you expect to get money back?? Just a thought.
March 16th, 2010 at 5:05 am
Rowdym,
Couldn’t have said it better. There are plenty of socialist countries these progressive liberals can move to…..oooopps, most if not all are in disarray and their citizens are wanting to come here, the last truly free state. Once the USA is ruined, where will they go? The Dems have been in control for to long, but blamed Republicans. You can have Pelosy, Reid, Frank, Dodd, etc….
March 16th, 2010 at 5:39 am
Clarification… When I said “you” as in you can have Pelosy, Reid, Frank, Dodd, etc.,I was referring to the liberals.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:22 am
Rhayader,
How about coming home and having you door padlocked and a notice that your house has been repossessed by the bank. Later to find out it was a mix up in your address, so sorry.
Uhh, yeah, that sucks too. I wouldn’t want to be living in Atlantic Yards right now for that matter, either. Essentially the government has the power to say, do, and take anything they want.