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IRS still paying bonuses to tax cheat employees
2018-02-16
[Wash Times] The IRS is still paying bonuses to nearly 2,000 bad employees, including more than two dozen who were actual tax-cheats themselves, the agency’s inspector general said in a new report this week.

The audit suggests the tax agency’s efforts to crack down on bonuses have not fully succeeded, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

IRS screening did stop more than 1,000 employees with tax problems from getting bonuses, but 1,962 employees with discipline problems ‐ and 26 who had been found to have intentionally cheated on their tax returns ‐ were still paid bonuses in 2016 and 2017, topping $1.7 million.

Other employees who weren’t in full compliance but hadn’t been flagged for discipline also snuck through, the inspector general said.

The IRS promised to study the issue.

But top lawmakers on Capitol Hill said that wasn’t good enough.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Well Raj, lets face it. Phillip will never be an Olympic skater.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-16 18:44  

#4  I'd give Phillip a 6.5 - he didn't quite stick the landing.
Posted by: Raj   2018-02-16 11:57  

#3  Phil was "skilled in the art of war and military tactics" .....but not in the nuances of unassisted human flight.

Excellent !
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-16 10:03  

#2  A few things:

1) There are 80,000 IRS employees. This is what happens when government gets too big (we now that).

2) Their computer systems aren't Skynet self-aware, but a fair number of their employees spend all of their times assessing the accuracy of the computer generated notices. I deal with them often enough to make it part of my living. Apparently this system isn't tied to the one that determines employee bonuses.

3)This is what I would have done to the Commissioner.

Posted by: Raj   2018-02-16 09:59  

#1  Someone please tell me why this SOB still has a job at the IRS ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-16 09:22  

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