Posted on 06/04/2013 3:27:16 PM PDT by Nachum
The IRS spent $135,350 on 15 guest speakers at a single conference in Anaheim, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General’s report, released by the House Government Oversight Committee Tuesday. The report states that the IRS spent $50 million on such conferences between 2010 and 2012. The average speaker at the Anaheim conference made $9,000, according to a list of the 15 speakers. The IRS paid for the $4 million conference with unused funds originally intended to hire more enforcement personnel. A breakdown of spending from the report: • The IRS reported that it expended
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Yep, Barry sure has made that sequester hurt over at IRS.
I think we should put down $3,000 per night as our standard hotel room deduction, and if questioned, just say it’s the IRS standard rate.
I’ll speak to the IRS for free. They won’t like what I have to say.
Hey—It’s only taxpayer money. Not like they need it or anything.
What has me even more ticked-off than the IRS fiasco is the indifference of the GOP-e “leadership.”
Sign me up for a speaking gig on why the Tea-party is good for America.
we have to remember these ‘tips’. If they do it on our tax money, I can do it on my own money.
Another form of “redistributing the wealth”, when “the wealth” comes from the increasingly “NOT-wealthy”, and goes directly to those favored folks like these “speakers”, who, in an orgy of self-dealing,are thereby made wealthier than US, BECAUSE of US.
Not bad... I wonder what they pay for an above average speaker. /s
Another form of “redistributing the wealth”, when “the wealth” comes from the increasingly “NOT-wealthy”, and goes directly to those favored folks like these “speakers”, who, in an orgy of self-dealing,are thereby made wealthier than US, BECAUSE of US.
“The IRS paid for the $4 million conference with unused funds originally intended to hire more enforcement personnel.”
Why isn’t it mandatory that unused money be returned to the treasury? This nonsense could be stopped overnight.
Yeah?!
And many IRS employees lavished, at tax payer expense, in $1,500-$3,500 a night rooms, availed themselves of room service massage and other personal treatments.
You do not get those kinds of bene’s from a corporation .
Keep in mind that our Marines in Afganistan can’t get hot meals while these vermin party!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.