求助！我们被北卡税务局坑了血汗钱！

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(A) From Mitbbs.

具体情况是这样如下：

去年11月5日，我上网查了下银行余额，结果发现账户里的1000美元存款不翼而飞，另
外还负1500美元的赤字！！！打电话一查，原来是北卡税务局搞的鬼！！！

我心里纳闷我2009年才来的美国，怎么欠北卡2000到2001年共2500美元的州税！问了老
公后才知道是他的问题，但是实际上他并没有欠北卡的州税。2000年以前他是住在北卡
，但是2000年和2001年这两年他没有住在北卡，而是住在南卡，并在南卡工作（南卡是
不收州税的），而且自2000年以后，他一直没有搬回北卡住，直到2009年才又回到北卡
。这倒好，事隔10年，他们算糊涂旧账！

可能因为2001年以前都是住在北卡的，北卡税务局就以为他一直2001到2002年也是住在
北卡吧，换言之，既然没有住在北卡就不存在交州税的问题，更不用提欠税了，我们被
北卡税务局坑了！！！

老公由于经常工作调动，常搬家，2000到2001年的税单他早就不知道丢到哪里去了，于
是我们打电话给北卡税务局说明原委，他们让我们给他们提供2000到2001年的税单来证
明！于是我们去了当地的 IRS 办公室，他们说可以找到10年以内的税单记录，所以我
们交了140美元的手续费，等了60天，结果等来了 IRS 的一句：我们找不到你2000到
2001年的税单纪录！！！

NND!!! 被北卡税务局白坑了2500元的美金，还白交IRS 140元美金！！！

在未名潜水了有一段时间，觉得这里或许有人能帮帮我，所以虽然事隔差不多一年，还
是在这里重提，真的盼望有人能帮帮我们！毕竟辛辛苦苦存的钱就这样莫名其妙的被坑
了，心里实在觉得很气，很冤！

我们在这里跪求大家的帮忙！！！万分感谢！！！


(B) My reply
(1) Where is your husband throughout this ordeal?

He is the culprit, not you. But he is nowhere to be seen--or heard.

And it is likely that your husband took the money from the bank account and Department of Revenue, North Caronina.

(2) You assert there is no tax in South Carolina. That state is no paradise. There are all sorts of tax in US (property tax, for example); income tax is just one.

Even a casual check in teh web will tell you both North and South Carolinas demand personal income tax.
state income tax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax

(3) US is a nation of law. Indeed the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal constitution requires "due process."  
正當法律程序
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E6%AD%A3%E7%95%B6%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B%E7%A8%8B%E5%BA%8F

It is wholy impossible that a government agency will swoop down and take property from a person. The government agency must follow state (and fedeal) law. At very least, it must notify a deliquent taxpaper (such as your husband) that he owns state tax, and that the state will go after him (and his property) if he does not pay in full. Only when the notification is ignored or tax not paid in full, will a state start taking property (wage or bank account).

(4) In this regard North Carolina has a panoply of state law, whose official name is General Statute (GS).  
(i) GS § 105-241.22. Collection of tax.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/pdf/bysection/chapter_105/gs_105-241.22.pdf
(ii) § 105‑242.  Warrants for collection of taxes; garnishment and attachment; certificate or judgment for taxes.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_105/GS_105-242.html

Quote:

"(a) Levy and Sale. – If a taxpayer does not pay a tax within 30 days after it is collectible under G.S. 105‑241.22, the Secretary [of NC Department of Revenue] may take either of the following actions to collect the tax


"(b) (Effective January 1, 2011) Attachment and Garnishment. Intangible property that belongs to a taxpayer * * * is subject to attachment and garnishment in payment of a tax that is due from the taxpayer and is collectible under G.S. 105‑241.22. Intangible personal property includes bank deposits, rent, salaries, wages * * * G.S. 105‑242.1 sets out the procedure for attachment and garnishment of intangible property.A person who is in possession of intangible property that is subject to attachment and garnishment is the garnishee

(iii) § 105‑242.1.  Procedure for attachment and garnishment.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bysection/chapter_105/gs_105-242.1.html
(A garnishee, the bank in your case, must turn over the money owned by the taxpayer "within 20 days after receiving a notice of garnishment")

(5) North Carolina does not require a court order to garnish a bank acoount (or wage).

Revisiting the New Regulations for Bank Attachments
Monday, May 2, 2011
Chris McLaughlin, Revisiting the New Regulations for Bank Attachments. School of Government, University of North Carolina, May 2, 2011 (blog).
http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/localgovt/?p=4467
("In North Carolina, bank account garnishments for unpaid local and state taxes occur without the need for a court order.   However, under NCGS 105-321 the orders of collection issued by governing boards to tax collectors have 'the full force and effect of a judgment and execution against the taxpayers’ real and personal property'”)  

* Chris B McLaughlin
http://www.sog.unc.edu/user/111
(Assistant Professor of Public Law and Government; McLaughlin is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Duke Law School)
* GS § 105-321. Disposition of tax records and receipts; order of collection.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/pdf/bysection/chapter_105/gs_105-321.pdf
((b): to collect deliquent county tax)

(6) You do not describe the nature of the bank account, whether it (the account) is yours, your husband's or a joint account. This matter in North Carolina, because its state law will not touch a bank account that is yours ALONE.

Christopher B. McLaughlin, Attachment and Garnishment. School of Government, University of North Carolina, February 2010 (Property Tax Bulletin, No 152), at page 7
http://sogpubs.unc.edu/electronicversions/pdfs/ptb152.pdf
("Married Taxpayers * * * However, if those individual wages [of each spouse] are deposited into a joint bank account, then that joint account could be attached by the tax collector to satisfy the taxes on the land because the bank account is property of both spouses. A joint bank account also may be attached for the tax obligation of an individual spouse, because each spouse has the right to withdraw all of the funds in a joint account")


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