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

7 点作者 sinnerswing将近 12 年前

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anigbrowl将近 12 年前
A classic example of failure to read the article properly, resulting in a wholly misleading headline (at the time of writing it&#x27;s &#x27;IRS spent $108M of taxpayer&#x27;s money on porn, romance novels, personal items&#x27;).<p><i>The Treasury&#x27;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.<p>It identified improprieties in only about</i> two-tenths of 1 percent of transactions <i>in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, when IRS workers made 273,000 credit card purchases worth about $108 million.<p>&quot;The majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly,&quot; the report said, adding that &quot;we</i> did not <i>find a significant amount of improper purchases in our limited testing.&quot;</i><p>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.
kevingadd将近 12 年前
Title blatantly false.<p>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.<p>&quot;The majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly,&quot; the report said, adding that &quot;we did not find a significant amount of improper purchases in our limited testing.&quot;
throwaway10001将近 12 年前
Shocking aint it? They are like employees on every corporation with expense accounts. Some or many will abuse it.