IRS hands out bonuses to employees who haven’t paid their taxes
April 23, 2014
ABC (yes ABC) did a report on the IRS and in this story we learned that the IRS paid out $1,000,000 in bonuses to employees who are late on their taxes, and as many as 1,000 tax delinquent IRS employees received extra time off. (Maybe they should have used that extra time to do their taxes.)
The report also claims that 69 employees received pay raises but was not clear on whether the people in question here are late on their taxes.
Here is the report:
How did that old American Express slogan go? Oh yeah: membership has its privileges. Perhaps the IRS should pay as much attention to the people they have working for them as they do to the conservative groups they were targeting. Or perhaps this was a reward for a job well done…..
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Reblogged this on Freedom Is Just Another Word….
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If this is how the IRS is run then clearly it is time to slash their budget. If they can afford all these bonuses to tax evaders and giving people extra time off, they have way too much funding. Perhaps the BLM could send their SWAT teams to the homes of the IRS employees who haven’t paid their taxes.
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Truly, if any IRS employee has evaded paying their federal income tax for 20+ years, they shouldn’t be working at the IRS. As to the dozens of agents sent to deal with Mr. Bundy’s cows, have you ever considered that it takes quite a few people to round up 1000 cows trespassing on 600,000 acres? And that they were armed because of the uproar from Bundy and his fellow travellers who rambled on and on about range wars?
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How about we just implement a flat tax and rid ourselves of the IRS once and for all? That sounds good to me!
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I’m surprised ABC did this. Must be that they are ‘showing’ they can cover real stories too besides be purely propaganda machines. These newscasters give you that ‘feel’ that ‘we care about you, we feel your pain, we’re here to comfort you.’ It’s all part of the ‘trap’ and ‘fluffy feel good and secure’ plan on numbness / frontal lobotomy!
I’m not saying all, but most – it’s the ego rating you know!
This reminds me of the show ‘Fringe’ where the ‘Loyalist’ work for the ‘Observers’ who are taking over and destroying the world. Different wormhole but same result.
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Actually, I didn’t think the quality of the journalism was very good – the report didn’t explain how they got tax information that’s supposed to be private.
TGY
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Good point. I suppose the same way those usurping in this Gov. knows who’s a Patriot terrorist or didn’t vote for them.
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Of course ABC is the network that released a video which was supposed to prove Zimmerman was not acting in self defense and they had to backtrack so I would not expect any real journalism from them.
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Zip, ABC probably thinks this is a good way to take attention off of the IRS for the targeting scandal.
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Agree.
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Reblogged this on Cmblake6's Weblog and commented:
Right. Of course they deserve bonuses. The job they are doing for their masters is exceptional!
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It was too good not to.
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GyG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Erm, about these bonuses – why were they granted? If they were granted for the employees’ being late with their tax payments, then this is a scandal. Performance? That’s a different issue.
Otherwise, I’d say that even the IRS is forbidden from knowing its own employees’ tax situation – it’s a privacy issue. If your employer cannot know your standing with the IRS (unless it’s received a garnishment), then those people are entitled to the same degree of privacy.
Obviously, I’m not okay with them being late with their taxes, and perhaps there should be an offset program for bonuses paid to federal employees just as there is for refunds due to deadbeat divorced parents.
And I’m interested in knowing how the watchdog got the information about who has and hasn’t paid their taxes. I mean, it was absolutely impossible for anyone to learn about Mr. Romney’s taxes unless he approved – and he didn’t.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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So the IRS is prohibited from going after employees who failed to pay their taxes due to privacy? I wish we all had that privilege!
Harry Reid seems to know allot about taxes, after all he somehow “knows” that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years and he also claims Cliven Bundy did not pay taxes in addition to the land fees he wasn’t paying. Perhaps this groups had the same source as does Harry Reid.
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No employer (or legislator) can go to the IRS and ask the status of a taxpayer’s account.Where they’re getting the information is mystifying, but I’m sure some regulations are being broken.
I
m hearing today that there are members of Congress who are in high dudgeon over this issue. I wonder if all of those who’ve expressed their ire are themselves current with their tax accounts.
And yes, despite the fact that it’s the IRS, that agency’s personnel records should not be intermingled with taxpayer records. However one finds out about a taxpayer’s status, the IRS should follow the same procedure to learn the status of its own employees, or there should be a new rule made governing the treatment of all employees of the federal government (not just the IRS) who are delinquent in their taxes. That includes the military. You can’t run the government by saying these employees are held to a higher standard than those who work for that agency over there.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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