Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Asks Treasury Department to Return $29,500 Taken From Innocent Dairy Farmers

The Internal Revenue Service seized $63,000 from Frederick, Md., dairy farmers Randy and Karen Sowers under civil asset forfeiture.

Melissa Quinn, --August 13, 2015

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee is coming together to ask the Treasury Department to return nearly $30,000 it seized from Maryland dairy farmers in 2012.
The letter, sent August 11 to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, calls on the agency to return $29,500 the Internal Revenue Service seized from Frederick-based dairy farmers Randy and Karen Sowers through civil asset forfeiture. The lawmakers also asked Lew to review similar cases and return money seized by the tax agency under the practice. More...

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