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Originally Posted by Relentless
Ahh yeah, with a fine of $12.50 per page, filing it in the trash makes good sense. The one they sent me was an online survey for small businesses... probably 15-20 pages long, but all point and click. Once I read that there was no liability for a good faith answer that might turn out to be incorrect, the survey took much less time.  |
I can tell you from experience the one audit you NEVER want to do is a HS/ICE I9 audit.
What a scam. We got fined $44,300 for not dotting I's and crossing T's. After nearly 3 months of our attorneys haggling with them they dropped the fine to $37,000.
When they hand delivered the *intent to fine* documents I asked the agent how they came up with a number like that. His answer was, that there is this
matrix that they plug all the data in and out pops a fine. And people wonder why business people are not in love with the federal government.
My daughter is the HR director for a very large international company that employees thousands of people. Many of them are scientists from around the world, here on education or work visas. They go through these I9's inspections often and the fines they pay are unreal. Some have been in the over $1m range.