Archive for January, 2019
“The 2016 Tax Filing Season” April 19, 2016
TESTIMONY OF TIMOTHY P. CAMUS DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR INVESTIGATIONS TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION before the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES “The 2016 Tax Filing Season” April 19, 2016 CFEG reports on the testimony of Timothy P. Camus, Deputy Inspector General…
IRS Negligence Destroys Your Privacy
When under the gun from IRS auditors and investigators your records are scrutinized as intensely and meticulously as possible. Yet, when it comes to the IRS’s requirements for following the rules about proper care and diligence of sensitive taxpayer information, they’re more careless than you can imagine. The IRS has…
IRS Wastes Taxpayer Dollars and Claims it’s Efficient
The IRS loves to claim it is an efficient organization, often using the most inefficient bureaucracies on the planet as a basis of comparison. After drawing a single comparison between the IRS’s unproductive exploits and the easy tax revenue it lets slip through the cracks and the essential services it…
They Lobby to Make Government Inefficient, Frustrating and Costly for YOU!
Simplifying the tax-preparation burden has historically always been a bi-partisan issue, but legislation to that effect rarely ever meaningfully gets passed through Congress. There are bad actors that fester in the halls of Congress who have continually obstructed the passage of “return-free filing” legislation which would pre-populate tax…
IRS Above the Law!
It’s tax season again, a perfect time to remind America’s taxpayers that “poor management is not a crime,” well if you’re an IRS employee anyway. It’s been a little over 3 years since Lois Lerner, the former director of the exempt organizations unit of the IRS has been in the…