Posted on 05/10/2017 11:56:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Internal Revenue Service, which is responsible for collecting federal taxes and enforcing federal tax law, was unable to accurately deal with its own complex rules governing the payment of its own employees and ended up overpaying more than 600 IRS workers about $4,200,000, according to an audit report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The IRS also underpaid more than 900 employees about $2,700,000, according to TIGTA’s estimate.
The inspector general found that the IRS’s rules for how it determines the correct pay for one of its own employees when he or she is promoted to a management position are “confusing.” […]
As a result of the IG’s audit, the IRS is now reviewing the compensation of nearly 1,000 present IRS employees who might have been overpaid. …
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The inspector general found that the IRS’s rules for how it determines the correct pay for one of its own employees when he or she is promoted to a management position are “confusing.”
Seems pretty straightforward to me. Loyal dogs get the treats.
Must be really confusing when the employee is gender neutral — laughing on way to pay taxes
Gee, can’t wait until big govt is totally in charge of my health care. sarc
Thats nothing.
Accounting at my job rounded UP to the nearest dollar on my last check. :)
Get rid of the IRS!
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My original candidate wanted to abolish the IRS.
Mike Hukabee.
Make those who were overpaid pay the “overpayment” back!
Abolish the IRS!!!!!!
They are obviously unfit to run our lives.
Is this action of "reviewing" similar to The Government's "monitoring" of suspected Terrorists?
pigs at the trough
“Seems pretty straightforward to me. Loyal dogs get the treats.”
For sure! They have to take care of the ones who could rat them out.
4.2 mil, that’s nothing, but it all adds up and cleaning stuff like that does address the increasing cultural slack growing in the ever burgeoning bureaucracy.
That aside what about the State Department? The CIA, NSA , DHS slush fund managers and money launderers. I heard there was 6b unaccounted for after Hillary’s tenure. Not that I’m advocating specifically targeting Hillary, but draining the swamp would included tracking these unaccounted for government expenditures down.
69,000 employees eating out our substance every day.
I don’t necessarily agree with that. You are offered a promotion and that comes with a salary bump. It sounds like a policy was in place that you get either the minimum of the grade that you are moved to or a maximum 10% raise. That really is the employers job not yours to make sure the offer is not above their policy. In the private sector, there is no way that they could make you pay that back if they screwed up.
Instead of punishing the people who made the mistake, they are punishing the employee test got the promotion. The people that should be punished are managers in the HR/compensation groups.
I have heard of several people in my company accidentally getting overpaid and of a school teacher in my district getting over paid. Every time the employees HAD to give the money back by getting the overpayment payroll deducted in small amounts over time.
Will these people be required to pay back the overpayment? It comes to about $7000 each.
And no one is held responsible. Lock them up! Start with Lerner & Koskinen.
No surprise. I expect all Federal agancies are guilty.
The old “creating a hardship” will keep them from recovering the monies.
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