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One of my clients forwarded me a letter they believed was sent by the IRS. The letter purports to be IRS Notice CP53E. The notice states that the IRS couldn’t direct deposit the taxpayer’s Form 1040 refund.
The real IRS Notice CP53E is sent to taxpayers when incorrect or incomplete bank account information was entered on a tax return. The legitimate notice provides a secure way to update your bank account online within 30 days of the notice. An authentic notice also states that, if no action is taken, a paper check will eventually be issued, but the refund will be delayed because it takes longer to process a check.
The fake notice appears amazingly identical to the real notice but states the taxpayer has 30 days to provide the IRS with a new or updated account number and provides a QR code to access the taxpayer’s online account. The QR code is not legitimate and taxpayers are tricked into providing their bank account information to the scammers. The IRS never requests bank account or other personal information over the phone or via QR code.
The fake notice also states that, if you cannot provide updated bank information using the QR code, to call an 800 number. That phone number is not legitimate. If you must call the IRS, the correct number to call is the official IRS customer service number, 1-800-829-1040.
If you receive a fake notice, do not scan the QR code, click on links or call the number in the notice. You should also consider reporting receipt of a fake notice to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration through their hotline at 1-800366-4484 or submit a complaint at www.tigta.gov/ reportcrime-misconduct. Alternatively, you can forward a copy of the notice to the IRS via email to phishing@irs.gov. You might want to consider doing both.
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ETHICALLY SPEAKING
What, Be Accountable?
By David Hegg
Many consider the primary philosophical question to be “why is there something rather than nothing?” The answer, while demanding a diligent gathering of facts and a robust analysis, forms the foundation of any ethical system of belief. It is only after we understand how things came to be that we can determine how we ought to live. Our understanding of accountability will necessarily be based on the answer to this fundamental question.
When Charles Darwin introduced his theory of natural selection and the survival of the fittest – known as evolution – he set off a revolution, the consequences of which extended far beyond the field of science. For the first time in history, someone had put forth an explanation of reality that was not dependent on God. No longer was it necessary to posit a Creator to explain the presence of creation.
What Darwin couldn’t have seen was the far-reaching ethical damage his theory would have, especially in the area of holding back the predisposition of humanity to seek its own interests first and foremost. His theory of evolution glorified selfishness and self-determination in that those organisms best suited to dominate wound up surviving.
Leaving aside the debate over the actual scientific evidence for his theory, what Darwin did was offer humanity a dignified way to sever any thought of accountability to a divine Creator, and replace it with a pragmatic sense of accountability to self. Living to please God in light of future judgment no longer played a role in the new science. Now, living without consideration of divine restraint or moral law was identified as enlightened.
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Fast-forward almost 200 years. As I look around my world, I see an almost complete renunciation of accountability. Where accountability to society or some institution does exist, every year we hear of transgressors finding loopholes or filing suit to change the rules. Today, accountability is a dirty word, defined by many as a demeaning attempt to promote inequality. If evo-
lutionary theory is correct, our primary accountability is to ourselves.
In an ironic and brave new world, we have seen an unprecedented explosion of laws and statutes meant to curtail the exponential growth of violence, deceit, fraud and other demonstrations of human selfishness. Having torn down a societal recognition that we “are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights,” we are now trying to curb evil with legislation. Since God doesn’t exist and the fear of God no longer restrains evil, we must do it through laws. But it is widely recognized that internal compliance is preferable to external compulsion. Accountability is strongest when I restrain my own selfish impulses to live in keeping with standards imposed on me by some authority to which I will be held accountable. That brings us back to the fundamental question. Why is there something rather than nothing? If everything came to be without God, then mankind has no ultimate accountability except to those social constructs we establish for ourselves. As we’ve seen, these constructs can change rapidly as societal desires evolve. Without static standards of right and wrong, true accountability devolves into pragmatism over time. However, if everything exists because a sovereign, loving God both brought them into existence, and continues to superintend his creation, then how we live has everything to do with what he commands. And being both loving and perfect, he ultimately commands what is best and right for us, even though some of us may misuse him and his teaching in despicable ways. Ultimately, each of us must answer the fundamental questions of life for ourselves. Unfortunately, few today take the time to consider them and search out the truth in their answers. I hope this column will continue to push you to think, and think deeply. After all, if I’m wrong, I’ve really lost nothing. But if you think God is a myth, and you’re wrong, you’ve lost everything.
Local resident David Hegg is senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church. “Ethically Speaking” appears Sundays.
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