Tax Return Refund Shock 2019

Your refund may be smaller than usual this year.

 

The 2018 federal tax overhaul represented the biggest change in the U.S. tax code since 1986, altering the tax situation for many of the 154 million people expected to file individual federal returns this year with the Internal Revenue Service.

The latest overhaul, among other things, lowered tax rates for many individual income levels and raised the standard deduction. But it also eliminated many deductions that people had itemized to lower their tax burden — such as union dues and the fees that tax preparers charge, and placed caps on others, such as state and local income tax deductions.

The bottom line: While some filers will owe less or get a larger-than-expected refund, many others will be in the opposite camp, especially if they did not adjust their W-4 form that determines how much of their weekly income is withheld for taxes.

In other words, people who did not change their withholding might have enjoyed more take-home pay during 2018 but now they won’t get the refund they might have expected. big government  in effect gave them more money throughout the year instead of waiting to return the cash with a refund.

That refund averaged about $2,800 for the majority of individual taxpayers last year, the IRS says, but that’s likely to change for 2018 returns.

Further complicating matters is the federal government’s partial shutdown, which initially left the IRS with a skeletal staff. But the Trump administration said it’s calling about 36,100 additional IRS employees back to work — without pay — so that on Jan. 28 the agency can start processing returns and issuing refunds.

So this year the instant tax refund is going to be less "instant".

While your waiting for your tax return another glitch could be the Feb 15, 2019 deadline President Trump has made for the lying liberal democrats to pass a spending bill that includes 5 billion or more to help protect Americans from illegal aliens crossing the mexican border and taking a big chunk of your hard earned money.

If pelosi and summer don't comply President Trump will declare a national emergency an build the wall at the mexican border anyway.

Will this impede your tax refund? Who knows?

President Trump:  Making America Great Again.

I wear my mega hat and don't care what crazy liberals think about it.

The IRS will also use the IBM technology of death via obamacare

IBM and The Holocaust - the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany
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When Hitler came to power, a central Nazi goal was to identify and destroy Germany's 600,000 Jews. To Nazis, Jews were not just those who practiced Judaism, but those of Jewish blood, regardless of their assimilation, intermarriage, religious activity, or even conversion to Christianity.

Only after Jews were identified could they be targeted for asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and ultimately extermination. To search generations of communal, church, and governmental records all across Germany--and later throughout Europe--was a cross-indexing task so monumental, it called for a computer. But in 1933, no computer existed....

Dehomag and other IBM subsidiaries custom-designed the applications. Its technicians sent mock-ups of punch cards back and forth to Reich offices until the data columns were acceptable, much as any software designer would today. Punch cards could only be designed, printed, and purchased from one source: IBM.

The machines were not sold, they were leased, and regularly maintained and upgraded by only one source: IBM.

IBM subsidiaries trained the Nazi officers and their surrogates throughout Europe, set up branch offices and local dealerships throughout Nazi Europe staffed by a revolving door of IBM employees, and scoured paper mills to produce as many as 1.5 billion punch cards a year in Germany alone. Moreover, the fragile machines were serviced on site about once per month, even when that site was in or near a concentration camp.
IBM Germany's headquarters in Berlin maintained duplicates of many code books, much as any IBM service bureau today would maintain data backups for computers.

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(Thomas wastson of IBM told people in the 1940's to ignore the news media reports about IBM's involvement with the nazi's in the news. Obama today tells Americans to ignore his administrations involvement with the IRS doing the same thing hitler did to track the jews so he could kill them. Today its not just jews that obama and IBM are tracking and tabulating but everyone in America via the IRS, NSA, obamacare etc and every branch of the obama regime.) Story Reports

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IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation [Paperback]
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IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.

IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.

IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.

Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century's greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit.

Only with IBM's technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews -- how did Hitler get the names?

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Beyond the Cashless Society: IBM’s Vision for the Future

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