More woes at IRS

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WITH DANCE VIDEO (yes you read that right)

http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/302899-more-trouble-for-the-irs

The new acting IRS chief acknowledged Friday that an upcoming audit would find improper spending at an agency conference, opening up a new trouble spot for an agency already embattled over its treatment of Tea Party groups.

Danny Werfel, the acting commissioner, said that the conference occurred in 2010, labeling it an “unfortunate vestige” from a time before the agency tightened its belt.

“While there were legitimate reasons for holding the meeting, many of the expenses associated with it were inappropriate and should not have occurred,” Werfel said in a statement.

 

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Well... the IRS appears to be back to usual.

updated July 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM

The IRS said the furlough scheduled for July 22 has been cancelled. More than 90,000 IRS employees have already been furloughed for three days this year with July 22 and Aug. 30 also slated as days of unpaid leave. IRS officials said they will notify workers later if the Aug. 30 furlough day is also cancelled.

The cancellation is a turnaround from earlier plans for five days of scheduled furlough with the possibility for two additional days of unpaid leave that would have shut down virtually all IRS offices on those days. The closures were due to sequestration, which took $600 million from the IRS budget this year.

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/07/irs_cancels_scheduled_monday_f.html

 

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At least they're not alone.

July 31, 2013

Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record before the FEC’s vote in the case of a conservative non-profit organization, according to e-mails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee and obtained exclusively by National Review Online. The correspondence suggests the discrimination of conservative groups extended beyond the IRS and into the FEC, where an attorney from the agency’s enforcement division in at least one case sought and received tax information about the status of a conservative group, the American Future Fund, before recommending that the commission prosecute it for violations of campaign-finance law. Lerner, the former head of the IRS’s exempt-organizations division, worked at the FEC from 1986 to 1995, and was known for aggressive investigation of conservative groups during her tenure there, too.

http://nationalreview.com/corner/354801/e-mails-suggest-collusion-between-fec-irs-target-conservative-groups-eliana-johnson

 

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23 September 2013

Lois Lerner, embattled official at the heart of IRS tea party scandal, retires with full pension likely worth more than $50,000 as an internal review called for her firing

-The notorious former chief of tax-exempt groups at the IRS has been on paid leave for more than three months

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430174/Lois-Lerner-embattled-official-heart-IRS-tea-party-scandal-retire-pension-likely-50-000-year-Congress-seeks-answers.html

 

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Oh yes, it just keeps getting better:

September 25, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report released today.

The “Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund” (HIRIF) was tucked into Obamacare in order to give the IRS money to enforce the tax provisions of the healthcare law. The fund, totaling some $1 billion of taxpayer money, was used to roll out enforcement mechanisms for the approximately 50 tax provisions of Obamacare.

According to the report: “Specifically, the IRS did not account for or attempt to quantify approximately $67 million [from the slush fund] of indirect ACA costs incurred for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2012.”

http://www.atr.org/irs-watchdog-million-missing-obamacare-slush-a7886