69% of families claiming the adoption tax credit in 2011 (2012 tax filing season) were audited. <\/p>\n
So Congress implemented a tax credit to facilitate adoption \u2013 a process that is so extraordinarily expensive that it is out of reach for many middle-class families \u2014 and the IRS responded by implementing an audit campaign that delayed much-needed tax refunds to the very families that needed them the most. Oh, and the return on its investment in this harassment? Slightly more than 1 percent.<\/a><\/p>\n And here's more from NRO (National Review Online) –<\/p>\n Earlier this week, in a feeble attempt at humor on Facebook, I posted: \u201cIf you haven\u2019t been audited by the IRS during the Obama administration, can you even call yourself a conservative?\u201d Given the scale of the abuses, I should probably just shorten it and say, \u201cOnly RINOs don\u2019t get audited.\u201d My wife and I got audited in 2011, with the IRS examining every inch of our adoption the previous year. The process was painful, but we got through it, and our refund may have been adjusted by a few dollars (the amount of the adjustment was so small, I don\u2019t actually remember). In other words, the audit was a gigantic waste of time \u2014 for the IRS and for our family. A Facebook commenter, however, pointed me to a report that made me rethink the experience.<\/a><\/p>\n In 2012, the IRS requested additional information from 90 percent<\/em> of returns claiming the adoption tax credit<\/a> and went on to actually audit 69 percent<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 69% of families claiming the adoption tax credit in 2011 (2012 tax filing season) were audited. So Congress implemented a tax credit to facilitate adoption \u2013 a process that is so extraordinarily expensive that it is out of reach for many middle-class families \u2014 and the IRS responded by implementing an audit campaign that delayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}