I should just stop.
Stop looking into this stuff. Stop researching. Just stop. Take that other damned pill and just get plugged back in.
The following is brought to you by our good friends who give us the Internal Revenue Manual:<FONT face=Tahoma>
<H3><FONT size=2>5.19.1.4.3.1 (12-15-2002)
National Standards for Determining Expenses </FONT></H3><FONT face=Tahoma>


7. A taxpayer who claims more than the total allowed by the national standards <U>must substantiate and justify each separate expense of the total national standard amounts.</U>

8. <U>How the amount allowed for national standards is spent is up to the taxpayer.</U>


[Me here: And people wonder why they're called withholding "allowances"?& God forbid I actually exeed what BB "allows" me to have. Bastards!]<FONT face=Tahoma>
<H3><FONT size=2>5.19.1.4.3.4 (12-15-2002)
Transportation Expenses </FONT></H3>
<H3><FONT size=2>Example:</FONT></H3>


In some cities, public transportation cuts commuting time and <U>a car is only a personal convenience for the taxpayer, not a necessity.</U>


[Me, again: Glad that we have a "god" who determines what's necessary and what's not. Bastards!]</FONT><FONT face=Tahoma>


5.19.1.4.3.6 (12-15-2002)
Unsecured Debt Expenses

1. Payments on unsecured debts may also be necessary. The necessary expense test of health and welfare and/or production of income must be met. <U>Instances in which unsecured debts are necessary expenses should occur infrequently.</U> Examples of unsecured debts which may be necessary expenses include:

A. Payments required for the production of income such as payments to suppliers and payments on lines of credit needed for business.
B. <U>Payment of debts incurred in order to pay a federal tax liability.</U>


[Me, again: Moral of story? Credit card debt is BAD BAD BAD, well, unless it's to PAY YOUR DAMNED TAXES! Bastards!]
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5.19.1.5.4 (12-31-2003)
Can Pay by Installments


3. B. Identify the tax liability to be covered by the agreement. </FONT><FONT face=Tahoma>
<H3><FONT size=2>Example:</FONT></H3>


Taxpayer writes or calls and states he owes money and wants to send $200 a month. This request would not qualify for independent review or appeal rights. <U>The taxpayer has not identified the liability.</U> (This is for rejection purposes only, if you could establish an agreement within streamlined criteria, go ahead and grant the request.)


[Me, again: See? Like all of us here know, it really is "voluntary." WE have to admit the "liability." God, I hate this stuff so much. Why couldn't I have been born a few hundred years ago and just go out and slay dragons so I could get laid by the fair maiden? Life would've been so good.....]


Randy


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