"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
Not to mention innocent until proven guilty.
If the rate is really 128 proper seizures out of 739, it makes no sense to keep this automatic seizure. Instead have them do more investigative leg work before seizure so that it is whittled down further. Or even freeze the money only for a month before which the IRS needs to make a case to a judge about why further time is warranted before returning the money.
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
Not to mention innocent until proven guilty.
If the rate is really 128 proper seizures out of 739, it makes no sense to keep this automatic seizure. Instead have them do more investigative leg work before seizure so that it is whittled down further. Or even freeze the money only for a month before which the IRS needs to make a case to a judge about why further time is warranted before returning the money.