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Review of the internal revenue service’s purchase card violations report
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION REVIEW OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE’S PURCHASE CARD VIOLATIONS REPORT Final Report issued on July 15, 2016 CFEG reports that on July 15, 2016 the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report of its Audit of the IRS’s Purchase Card Violations….
Significant improvments are needed in the contractor tax check process
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION Office of Audit SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS ARE NEEDED IN THE CONTRACTOR TAX CHECK PROCESS Final Report issued on July 20, 2016 CFEG reports that TIGTA issued a report on July 20, 2016 finding that the IRS needs to make significant improvements in checking to see…
New Documents Suggest IRS’s Lerner Likely Broke the Law
From National Review Online 2016 by Eliana Johnson June 29, 2016 4:00 AM @elianayjohnson Recently obtained documents raise new questions about Lois Lerner’s role in sending confidential tax returns to the Justice Department. It is likely the largest unauthorized disclosure of tax-return information in history: the transfer of some 1.25…
The Internal Revenue Service Did Not Identify and Assist All Individuals Potentially Affected by the Get Transcript Application Data Breach
CFEG reports that on June 8, 2016 the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report to the public which found that the IRS did not identify and assist all individuals potentially affected by the ‘Get Transcript’ application data breach in May, 2015 and whose tax information was…
Data on Back Taxes Owed and Delinquency Rates of Federal Employees
CFEG reports that it received information from the IRS pursuant to a FOIA request on March 30, 2015 seeking data pertaining to the amount owed by federal employees and retirees in unpaid taxes, the number of federal employees and retirees with unpaid taxes, the delinquency rates of federal employees and…
Back Taxes Owed By Federal Employees
CFEG reports that it received information from the IRS pursuant to a FOIA request on February 23, 2015, seeking data and reports pertaining to the number of IRS employees who were terminated or disciplined for failing to file federal tax returns and for understating their federal tax liability as well…
