IRS spent $108M of taxpayer's money on porn, romance novels, personal items

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/25/19139793-porn-and-romance-novels-on-taxpayers-dime-inspector-general-urges-irs-to-boost-oversight-of-credit-card-spending?lite

by sinnerswing • 13 years ago

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kevingadd• 13 years ago

Title blatantly false.

It identified improprieties in only about two-tenths of 1 percent of transactions in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, when IRS workers made 273,000 credit card purchases worth about $108 million.

"The majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly," the report said, adding that "we did not find a significant amount of improper purchases in our limited testing."

throwaway10001• 13 years ago

Shocking aint it? They are like employees on every corporation with expense accounts. Some or many will abuse it.

anigbrowl• 13 years ago

A classic example of failure to read the article properly, resulting in a wholly misleading headline (at the time of writing it's 'IRS spent $108M of taxpayer's money on porn, romance novels, personal items').

The Treasury's inspector general for tax administration — the same agency that brought the hammer down on the IRS for singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny — found that IRS workers on the whole stick to the rules when they use government credit cards.

It identified improprieties in only about two-tenths of 1 percent of transactions in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, when IRS workers made 273,000 credit card purchases worth about $108 million.

"The majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly," the report said, adding that "we did not find a significant amount of improper purchases in our limited testing."

The article goes on to discuss examples of improper spending amounting to a few thousand dollars in the most egregious case, as well as some less egregious examples of poor spending controls that were not necessarily fraudulent. A far cry from the headline $108 million claim. I wonder what the OP has to say about this.

IRS spent $108M of taxpayer's money on porn, romance novels, personal items

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