Friday, October 12, 2007

An "embarrassment" you say, Senator Charles Grassley? Tell me more...

It said the IRS could not find 10 percent to 14 percent of case files requested in two prior GAO audits, and that the IRS could not come up with 19 percent of the case files when the Treasury Inspector General, in an audit, asked for a random sample of tax records.

"This is not a new problem," said Senate Finance Committee ranking Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa, who requested the study with committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. "The GAO's findings should be an embarrassment to the agency."



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_go_ot/irs_phone_tax

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Lets face it, the IRS is as lazy as the rest of us and is more than happy to pass off work onto someone else. Whatever, they are human too! But passing audit and debt collection to private collection agencies is a scary prospect... take it from me, sometimes even the IRS gets things wrong and the idea of a private debt collector showing up on my doorstep is not a pleasant thought...

Anyway, the best part though is...

Dan Drummond, a spokesman for the Tax Fairness Coalition, a group representing collection agencies with IRS contracts, said that opponents hope senators will block the bill or fashion a compromise where the program remains in place with some portion of the revenue tax collectors generate diverted to hire new IRS employees.

THE TAX FAIRNESS COALITION??? Say what?

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Just keep in mind, these special audits are in your best interest, I mean the IRS is just trying to make your life BETTER... don't you get that? They care about you, you are special!

Starting in October, hundreds of Americans will be getting "Dear Taxpayer" letters telling them they've been selected for a special audit by the Internal Revenue Service. The 13,000 chosen at random this year -- and similar numbers in subsequent years -- are part of the tax agency's National Research Program, which is designed to give the IRS a better understanding of how accurately income and deductions are reported and to reduce the so-called tax gap.


By the way, if you are having bad day, do not read this, it is better not to know, really, walk away...

http://news.aol.com/business/story/_a/irs-revives-random-audit-program/20070927170209990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001