This should anger everyone.  The government is getting lots of my hard earned money..and I can have everything taken away from me (including my freedom) if I don&#x27;t pay it.<p>The least they can do is have someone on the other side to answer questions if there is a mistake.<p>My cousin runs a company and received a surprise $5000 bill from the IRS last year.  His accountant said everything was in order and everything was paid on time.<p>It just so happens that the IRS office kept &#x27;losing&#x27; the paperwork.  Even though he was in the middle of resolving it, he started getting increasingly threatening letters from the government saying they would garnish his wages&#x2F;take his property&#x2F;or even put him in prison.<p>He ended up just paying the bill to clear his mind (he was losing sleep over it).