this is crazy because as a IRS employee if we mess up on a taxpayers disclosure or even look up a social security that we are not currently assisting we get FIRED but they are able to just get into IDRS???
I’m so sorry they are putting you and your colleagues through this nightmare! I am so angry that Orange Moron and Muskrat haven’t been stopped in their tracks by now! It hasn’t been quite a month, and look at the chaos they have already caused! When is the 25th Amendment going to be called into action?
i work in Identify theft so i help the taxpayers when their identity has been stolen just for him to point fingers at us like we are all the bad guys but thank you!! our unions are planning on doing protests!
I just got the invite from mine this afternoon! I don’t think they even know what IDRS is- if you’ve used it you know 2 things.
1) it’s older than dirt, it’s not Musk & Teens hack-friendly. It’ll freeze for a week as soon as they try to get in it (in typing that I’m realizing that we won’t be able to work for a month if they get in. It’ll be worse than dead cycle….)
2) they can’t just “find waste” once they have access. They’re either going in looking for specific people/businesses that they know they have to research, OR they want to look up every TIN & EIN to see what shows up
Or, more than likely they want control over everything; and who knows maybe there is a highest bidder out there willing to remake Trump and his crime family into a pack of oligarchs. They are replacing every agency with people who vow allegiance not to our Constitution but to Trump. They are also barraging us with shock and awe to instill fear, exhaustion and resignation. Take just one day off, folks -- I did so yesterday -- it is the only way to get thru this -- skip a day consuming what is here -- take a day in some action -- and save three days out of the week minimum unplugged. We are soldiers and none of us can sustain holding the line searching the horizon for the enemy 24/7 weeks on end. But we can do it together. The first rule of law is taking care of the soldiers and remove those who need R&R swiftly off the battlefield. Take care please.
yup! we had to do months of training just to even know the basics! everyone knows you need more than 2 years of working at the IRS to get the hang of everything
I’ve been in DPO for 8 years, but I know people who’ve been there 12-15 that learn something new every time I remind them to use the CSI tool 😂 That thing can be a serious lifesaver!
And my husband and I have had our identities stolen and must use special ID numbers when filing taxes. This is ludicrous! God I hope the SCOTUS grows a spine and rejects the Orange Dipshit and Muskrat.
On that note as to identity theft. The smart thing for every citizen in this country to do is freeze your credit, change all your passwords, get a post office box versus mail at the door if possible, and subscribe to a service that will expunge all your personally identifiable information from sites easily searchable on the web as well as the information on you found on the dark web. I have done all the above.
They took down Employee Tax Compliance when they removed all the DEI (and POSH) stuff. I had already filed by the time she told me, but if that one is gone, who knows what else we’re looking at…..
The poor accountants faced with getting our income tax returns filed by the deadline. And how can the IRS handle the influx of returns if their ranks are decreased even lower than exists today. At the start of Biden's administration, he increased the IRS staff, and I believe if memory serves the first thing Trump did was expunge that order. In any event, Trump has paraded all over anything he can that was good and accomplished by Biden's administration with a fury that should be employed serving us the people of the United States not Trump's thirst for retribution. He is so sick.
They’re being very pointed with the terminations, even how they handled the buyouts, because of filing season. They know the backlog would be enormous, and they have some of us locked in…
If you’ve been with the government during a budget shutdown, you know if your position/department is “essential”. And with the IRS, you know if that applies specifically to filing. After they sent the buyout emails, they sent a follow up of “if you’re deemed essential, you’ll still have to work through May 15th.”
My department, which is all processing, had new hire training start 2 weeks ago for employees that were made official right before the freeze. Yes, they’re probationary, but the classes haven’t been cancelled (yet). Possibly because of their work, or I’ll hear Tuesday. But I also haven’t heard of anyone within 1-2 years being terminated either.
Even when the CR runs out in March, the same “essential” employees still have to work with a promise of backpay when funding is resolved. But that promise was part of the CR when Trump shut us down during his first term, so who knows if he’ll keep it in, or use it as another way to get rid of more of us.
Yes, it’s spiteful. But personally, I’m working until they make me stop. And I’m working knowing that things could stop tomorrow so I had better make every damn thing count. Will a month or more be without pay? Possibly. The freeze already left me in a higher position with lower pay for the forseeable future, but I’m fortunate to be able to continue & use it all as ammo for when this all comes to a head. Until then, I uphold my oath. And there are MANY MANY MORE like me. We’re not going anywhere.
OMG! As I often post, in a crisis the heroes amongst us rise, and they are born to the role not made. Heroes do not refuse the calling to serve and sacrifice and save. The pull to do what is right and the courage that this takes is in their DNA, and their backbones are made of steel. Heroes are a gift to humanity. Therefore, in today's crisis we must support and encircle and acknowledge the heroes. You are a hero, Aviva Brick. Keep us up to date specifically on how you are doing please.
It is reported here that the actions being put before the Supreme Court if done will allow all of us to claim compensation for the action. Or will that recourse be removed if the Supreme Court rules to abide by this request to do the unthinkable?
It took the Department of Education YEARS to get an agreement with the IRS so students and their families could apply for financial aid by connecting with their IRS records. YEARS. This is a breach of my privacy!
This is a coup and doge is a ruse(it’s not an official dept of the gov!) this is illegal!!! Overthrow the republican administration now!!! This is no longer political this is traitorous!
Coup! No, that's what the Democrats do! Push out Bernie Sanders, pushed out Joe Biden! They are looking for corruption in the powers that be, if you aren't doing anything wrong why are y'all so worried! Afraid that corrupt orders have leaked down to your jobs!
We have all been exposed. We all have a right to sue for all this crazy unnecessary bullshit. Dig through MAGAS info-they welcomed him in. The rest of us DID NOT 😑
Time to put armed guards in there and keep his ass away from anything at the IRS! and if he refuses hack off both of his arms, so he can’t do a Nazi salute again
I truly pray the military stands down and blocks Trump in the end; and removes him from power. I think that is the closest we will have to an election in these times. A revolution enforced by our military.
Again, WHY aren’t the “powers that be” doing anything??? It’s going to take French Revolution type action. WE the people just need to burn it all down. I’m afraid nothing will happen without drastic action.
I hear what you’re saying. The system of checks and balances is crucial, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that it’s not functioning as it was intended. The framework that’s supposed to prevent abuse of power seems to be failing, and as we’ve seen with the ongoing illegalities, the ‘powers that be’ aren’t stepping in to hold the line as they should. There’s only so much we can do within the system before it becomes evident that playing the game and waiting for change by said people holding the line, isn’t going to cut it. We need to rise up and take action. Our voices must be heard beyond the courts and legislation because whats happening now isn’t going to bring about the justice we need.
What "powers that be" are you suggesting can do anything? We have lawyers and they are doing their job -- holding the line. This week we enter into a new chapter where POTUS is testing SCOTUS. It is we the people who must do what is needed no matter what the cost.
Omg- why isn’t this man (musk)in prison? All of this illegal activity - so many breaches of our data! I did not give permission for the government to share my personal information with anyone, let alone a greedy, nazi, right wing creeper who is gutting our nation. Go in, put his ass in handcuffs and ship him off to Guantanamo!
Sadly you don’t have to give permission when there is no government. Welcome to 1930s Germany. Sadly complaining won’t work anymore. Congress is all red bought and paid for. His morons run every Department. Just like Hitler did. 53 days it took Hitler to dismantle The German Democracy. The parallels are exactly the same. Our only hope is he doesn’t make military swear allegiance to him instead of Constitution and at least 2/3 defend it. A war is coming. Don’t wait on anyone to save us.
Many many people are not filing out of Resistance until they know more. Some are actually legally putting their payments OWED into Escrow access until the decide...Best wishes to ALL✌️
Glad you’re taking time for you at Top Golf. You’re great. I don’t want to see you burn yourself out. I’m almost 70 and I’ve never seen such chaos, corruption and a coup (!!!) in our own country. Your reporting is excellent. Thank you.
POTUS declared war on the people of the United States. The Trump administration made it clear on day one that our President is not choosing to be of service to his country and its people but to himself. He wants to be an oligarch so we all must suffer and lose what we have so he can achieve this goal for him and his crime family. POTUS also declared war on democracies across the globe using the greatest power in the world, which is the role of POTUS to bully and destroy our allies while bending down in subservience to our enemies. Ukraine and America were not randomly chosen to be gateway for fascism to spread around the world. Do you think Putin will stop at Ukraine? Does anyone think leaving America for Europe will save you from what is in play? This is a bloodless coup and the scope of what will be overthrown and conquered is global not national. The people of all democracies must rise up against it. We are the first. If we succeed and we can, it will be major. Ukraine must be admitted to NATO post haste for to do so will make Putin crap in his pants and will leave the people of Russia in dread to the point they will rise up against him. There is a pathway out but it starts with the people. I'd say follow me and find your tribe of local Democratic activists and get busy making good trouble. There is something for each of us to do from the young to those age 106. Those are the facts, but it is better to accept reality and act than stew and grow weak. United we can beat them and together we can hold each other up.
“IF”, and there’s no doubt he WILL be given permission to do so, we should ALL BRING ABOUT A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT!!!!!
I agree!☝️💙🇺🇸💙🤜🤛
I was thinking the same thing.
This is a test of the Supreme Court. I think it can go both ways. Let's pray.
Exactly!
this is crazy because as a IRS employee if we mess up on a taxpayers disclosure or even look up a social security that we are not currently assisting we get FIRED but they are able to just get into IDRS???
I’m so sorry they are putting you and your colleagues through this nightmare! I am so angry that Orange Moron and Muskrat haven’t been stopped in their tracks by now! It hasn’t been quite a month, and look at the chaos they have already caused! When is the 25th Amendment going to be called into action?
i work in Identify theft so i help the taxpayers when their identity has been stolen just for him to point fingers at us like we are all the bad guys but thank you!! our unions are planning on doing protests!
I just got the invite from mine this afternoon! I don’t think they even know what IDRS is- if you’ve used it you know 2 things.
1) it’s older than dirt, it’s not Musk & Teens hack-friendly. It’ll freeze for a week as soon as they try to get in it (in typing that I’m realizing that we won’t be able to work for a month if they get in. It’ll be worse than dead cycle….)
2) they can’t just “find waste” once they have access. They’re either going in looking for specific people/businesses that they know they have to research, OR they want to look up every TIN & EIN to see what shows up
Or, more than likely they want control over everything; and who knows maybe there is a highest bidder out there willing to remake Trump and his crime family into a pack of oligarchs. They are replacing every agency with people who vow allegiance not to our Constitution but to Trump. They are also barraging us with shock and awe to instill fear, exhaustion and resignation. Take just one day off, folks -- I did so yesterday -- it is the only way to get thru this -- skip a day consuming what is here -- take a day in some action -- and save three days out of the week minimum unplugged. We are soldiers and none of us can sustain holding the line searching the horizon for the enemy 24/7 weeks on end. But we can do it together. The first rule of law is taking care of the soldiers and remove those who need R&R swiftly off the battlefield. Take care please.
yup! we had to do months of training just to even know the basics! everyone knows you need more than 2 years of working at the IRS to get the hang of everything
I’ve been in DPO for 8 years, but I know people who’ve been there 12-15 that learn something new every time I remind them to use the CSI tool 😂 That thing can be a serious lifesaver!
i love that tool!!
And my husband and I have had our identities stolen and must use special ID numbers when filing taxes. This is ludicrous! God I hope the SCOTUS grows a spine and rejects the Orange Dipshit and Muskrat.
On that note as to identity theft. The smart thing for every citizen in this country to do is freeze your credit, change all your passwords, get a post office box versus mail at the door if possible, and subscribe to a service that will expunge all your personally identifiable information from sites easily searchable on the web as well as the information on you found on the dark web. I have done all the above.
What is a service that scrubs that information? I’ve already frozen my credit
Thank you and your colleagues, Yazmin. Do we the people have any legal recourse if the Supreme Court rules in favor of this obscenity?
Not even a full month!!!
I bet Musk and his kids don't have to take any UNAX training or the dozen other mandatory briefings!!!
They took down Employee Tax Compliance when they removed all the DEI (and POSH) stuff. I had already filed by the time she told me, but if that one is gone, who knows what else we’re looking at…..
The poor accountants faced with getting our income tax returns filed by the deadline. And how can the IRS handle the influx of returns if their ranks are decreased even lower than exists today. At the start of Biden's administration, he increased the IRS staff, and I believe if memory serves the first thing Trump did was expunge that order. In any event, Trump has paraded all over anything he can that was good and accomplished by Biden's administration with a fury that should be employed serving us the people of the United States not Trump's thirst for retribution. He is so sick.
They’re being very pointed with the terminations, even how they handled the buyouts, because of filing season. They know the backlog would be enormous, and they have some of us locked in…
If you’ve been with the government during a budget shutdown, you know if your position/department is “essential”. And with the IRS, you know if that applies specifically to filing. After they sent the buyout emails, they sent a follow up of “if you’re deemed essential, you’ll still have to work through May 15th.”
My department, which is all processing, had new hire training start 2 weeks ago for employees that were made official right before the freeze. Yes, they’re probationary, but the classes haven’t been cancelled (yet). Possibly because of their work, or I’ll hear Tuesday. But I also haven’t heard of anyone within 1-2 years being terminated either.
Even when the CR runs out in March, the same “essential” employees still have to work with a promise of backpay when funding is resolved. But that promise was part of the CR when Trump shut us down during his first term, so who knows if he’ll keep it in, or use it as another way to get rid of more of us.
Yes, it’s spiteful. But personally, I’m working until they make me stop. And I’m working knowing that things could stop tomorrow so I had better make every damn thing count. Will a month or more be without pay? Possibly. The freeze already left me in a higher position with lower pay for the forseeable future, but I’m fortunate to be able to continue & use it all as ammo for when this all comes to a head. Until then, I uphold my oath. And there are MANY MANY MORE like me. We’re not going anywhere.
OMG! As I often post, in a crisis the heroes amongst us rise, and they are born to the role not made. Heroes do not refuse the calling to serve and sacrifice and save. The pull to do what is right and the courage that this takes is in their DNA, and their backbones are made of steel. Heroes are a gift to humanity. Therefore, in today's crisis we must support and encircle and acknowledge the heroes. You are a hero, Aviva Brick. Keep us up to date specifically on how you are doing please.
I was thinking the same thing! Is being a “special whatever” getting him around a national UNAX?
Absolutely - UNAX & constant monitoring to prevent disclosure of PII
As an irs employee I'm equally appalled. I was worried we'd get here, and I hope the civil servants he presses to get in say NO
It is reported here that the actions being put before the Supreme Court if done will allow all of us to claim compensation for the action. Or will that recourse be removed if the Supreme Court rules to abide by this request to do the unthinkable?
It took the Department of Education YEARS to get an agreement with the IRS so students and their families could apply for financial aid by connecting with their IRS records. YEARS. This is a breach of my privacy!
This is a coup and doge is a ruse(it’s not an official dept of the gov!) this is illegal!!! Overthrow the republican administration now!!! This is no longer political this is traitorous!
Perhaps a citizen's arrest is in order.
Try it! I dare you!
Coup! No, that's what the Democrats do! Push out Bernie Sanders, pushed out Joe Biden! They are looking for corruption in the powers that be, if you aren't doing anything wrong why are y'all so worried! Afraid that corrupt orders have leaked down to your jobs!
I HATE it here.
Me too.
We have all been exposed. We all have a right to sue for all this crazy unnecessary bullshit. Dig through MAGAS info-they welcomed him in. The rest of us DID NOT 😑
Can I claim asylum in Canada…🤦🏽♀️ I’d rather be a refugee than have to go through the destruction of America!
Same
Please tell Musk we said no. My taxes are being audited and are unavailable.
Time to put armed guards in there and keep his ass away from anything at the IRS! and if he refuses hack off both of his arms, so he can’t do a Nazi salute again
I truly pray the military stands down and blocks Trump in the end; and removes him from power. I think that is the closest we will have to an election in these times. A revolution enforced by our military.
Again, WHY aren’t the “powers that be” doing anything??? It’s going to take French Revolution type action. WE the people just need to burn it all down. I’m afraid nothing will happen without drastic action.
I hear what you’re saying. The system of checks and balances is crucial, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that it’s not functioning as it was intended. The framework that’s supposed to prevent abuse of power seems to be failing, and as we’ve seen with the ongoing illegalities, the ‘powers that be’ aren’t stepping in to hold the line as they should. There’s only so much we can do within the system before it becomes evident that playing the game and waiting for change by said people holding the line, isn’t going to cut it. We need to rise up and take action. Our voices must be heard beyond the courts and legislation because whats happening now isn’t going to bring about the justice we need.
I’m afraid you may be right.
✊🇺🇸😎
What "powers that be" are you suggesting can do anything? We have lawyers and they are doing their job -- holding the line. This week we enter into a new chapter where POTUS is testing SCOTUS. It is we the people who must do what is needed no matter what the cost.
Didn’t DOGE just fire over a thousand IRS employees?? Now they want our info to manipulate then sell?? Nope!! Go away!!
Omg- why isn’t this man (musk)in prison? All of this illegal activity - so many breaches of our data! I did not give permission for the government to share my personal information with anyone, let alone a greedy, nazi, right wing creeper who is gutting our nation. Go in, put his ass in handcuffs and ship him off to Guantanamo!
Sadly you don’t have to give permission when there is no government. Welcome to 1930s Germany. Sadly complaining won’t work anymore. Congress is all red bought and paid for. His morons run every Department. Just like Hitler did. 53 days it took Hitler to dismantle The German Democracy. The parallels are exactly the same. Our only hope is he doesn’t make military swear allegiance to him instead of Constitution and at least 2/3 defend it. A war is coming. Don’t wait on anyone to save us.
So- is it safe to file? I mean we’ll get in trouble anyway if we don’t 😭
That is my question too.
Many many people are not filing out of Resistance until they know more. Some are actually legally putting their payments OWED into Escrow access until the decide...Best wishes to ALL✌️
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Unfortunately, unless you’ve never filed before, they woukd already have all your past filing info.
That’s what I thought.
I'm not.
There is zero reason for MUSK To get Tax info? For what purpose. A judge needs to stop that maniac.
I’m not sure how they are going to try and justify access to that info.
And now, they're into Social Security, all info. This is too far...😥🤬😥
Glad you’re taking time for you at Top Golf. You’re great. I don’t want to see you burn yourself out. I’m almost 70 and I’ve never seen such chaos, corruption and a coup (!!!) in our own country. Your reporting is excellent. Thank you.
No that is wrong on. So many levels!! Jesus lovin’ Christ what is wrong with these people?
POTUS declared war on the people of the United States. The Trump administration made it clear on day one that our President is not choosing to be of service to his country and its people but to himself. He wants to be an oligarch so we all must suffer and lose what we have so he can achieve this goal for him and his crime family. POTUS also declared war on democracies across the globe using the greatest power in the world, which is the role of POTUS to bully and destroy our allies while bending down in subservience to our enemies. Ukraine and America were not randomly chosen to be gateway for fascism to spread around the world. Do you think Putin will stop at Ukraine? Does anyone think leaving America for Europe will save you from what is in play? This is a bloodless coup and the scope of what will be overthrown and conquered is global not national. The people of all democracies must rise up against it. We are the first. If we succeed and we can, it will be major. Ukraine must be admitted to NATO post haste for to do so will make Putin crap in his pants and will leave the people of Russia in dread to the point they will rise up against him. There is a pathway out but it starts with the people. I'd say follow me and find your tribe of local Democratic activists and get busy making good trouble. There is something for each of us to do from the young to those age 106. Those are the facts, but it is better to accept reality and act than stew and grow weak. United we can beat them and together we can hold each other up.