IRS Defeated! Stolen Money Returned, Law Changed.
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Stealing small businesses’ bank accounts and spying on people using cash. It’s the IRS and other agencies run amok.
Today we’re talking with IJ senior attorneys Dan Alban and Rob Johnson about how the IRS used “structuring” laws to take money from people who did nothing wrong. We’ll also cover IJ’s fight against new rules that sweep ordinary cash transactions into a financial surveillance dragnet—and what all of this means for people who use cash or run a small business.
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