Archive for Fraud, Waste and Abuse
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…
Stopping Senior Scams: Developments in Financial Fraud Affecting Seniors
TESTIMONY OF Timothy P. Camus Deputy Inspector General for Investigations TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION before the SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING UNITED STATES SENATE – February 15, 2017 Stopping Senior Scams: Developments in Financial Fraud Affecting Seniors CFEG reports that on February 15, 2017 Timothy P. Camus, Deputy Inspector…
Individual Representative Payees Who Do Not Have a Social Security Number in the Social Security Administration’s Payment Records
OIG – Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration Audit Report February, 2017 Individual Representative Payees Who Do Not Have a Social Security Number in the Social Security Administration’s Payment Records CFEG reports that the Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration, prepared an audit report in February,…
IRS Summarizes “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for 2017
CFEG reports that the IRS announced in February, 2017 its “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for 2017. The full list may be viewed by clicking the link below. Taxpayers should review this annual list published by the IRS to be on the lookout for scams they may encounter throughout…
