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The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Internal Revenue Service for Fiscal Year 2020
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Internal Revenue Service for Fiscal Year 2020 CFEG reports that on October 18, 2019 the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report on management and performance challenges facing the IRS for fiscal year…
The Electric-Vehicle Subsidy Racket The $7,500 tax credit is going to many buyers who don’t qualify.
A Chevrolet Volt hybrid car charging at a ChargePoint station in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2018. PHOTO: RICHARD VOGEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS Federal subsidies for electric vehicles are an income transfer to the affluent, and now comes news that significant numbers don’t qualify. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (Tigta) in…
IRS Failure To Address Annual Alimony Reporting Discrepancies Could Result In Over $1 Billion in Unreported Tax Over 5 Years
CFEG researches and reports on waste and mismanagement within the federal government with the goal of educating the public, the Congress and preventing and eliminating it through legislative and program initiatives. In this article CFEG reports on findings set out in a report from the Treasury Inspector General for…
IRS Fails To Properly Notify Taxpayers of Their Rights When Requested to Extend the Assessment Statute of Limitations
CFEG researches and reports on abuses within the federal government with the goal of educating the public, the Congress and preventing and eliminating it through legislative and program initiatives. In this article CFEG reports on findings set out in a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration…
President Trump Signs A New Law Stopping Asset Forfeiture Abuse By The IRS
CFEG researches and reports on fraud, waste and abuse within the federal government with the goal of educating the public, the Congress and preventing and eliminating it through legislative and program initiatives. In this article CFEG reports on a new law signed by President Trump which stops abuses by the…
IRS Pays Out Hundreds of Millions of Dollars In Erroneous and Fraudulent Tax Refunds When Processing Amended Tax Returns
One of CFEG’s missions is to expose wasteful government spending within the IRS and other federal government agencies and find solutions to such problems through research, public awareness, education and legislative and program changes and initiatives. CFEG reports that on July 31, 2019 the Treasury Inspector General For Tax…
Improper Payments Made By The Government
One of CFEG’s missions is to expose wasteful government spending and find solutions to such problems through research, public awareness, education and legislative and program changes and initiatives. An Improper Payment is an example of wasteful negligent spending of taxpayer dollars by the Government. This article will discuss improper payments…
Temporary IRS Employee Sentenced for Theft of Federal Tax Remittances
Temporary IRS Employee Sentenced for Theft of Federal Tax Remittances https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/oi_highlights.shtml CFEG reports that on April 5, 2019, in a federal district court in the Western District of North Carolina, an IRS temporary employee was sentenced to one count of theft of Government property. She was previously indicted on eight…
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION
International Travel Claims With Unallowable or Unsupported Expenses Were Certified for Payment by Approving Officials June 10, 2019 One of CFEG’s core missions is to expose wasteful government spending and inform the public. On June 10, 2019 the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report on international…
The IRS Has Rehired Hundreds of Fired Employees. Congress Should Step In.
For one of the most punitive agencies in the federal government, the IRS sure is forgiving with its own employees. Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., has proposed a bill that would prevent the IRS from rehiring employees fired for misconduct or poor performance. The bill, titled the Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce…
Former IRS Employee Convicted of Tax Evasion
A federal jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday convicted Craig P. Orrock, a former attorney and former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee, of tax evasion and obstructing the internal revenue laws, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A….
Former Special Agent Sentenced for Designing a Scheme to Defraud and Obstruct the IRS
Former Special Agent Sentenced for Designing a Scheme to Defraud and Obstruct the IRS https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/oi_highlights_2018.shtml CFEG reports that on October 23, 2018, in a federal district court in the Eastern District of California, a former IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Special Agent was sentenced for filing false tax returns,…
