Posted on 04/22/2014 6:27:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
More than 2,800 Internal Revenue Service employees who recently had been disciplined received performance bonuses totaling more than $2.8 million between Oct. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2012, a government audit found.
The misconduct ranged from failure to pay taxes to misuse of government travel cards, violation of official-conduct standards and fraud, according to the report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The discipline included written reprimands, suspensions and even removal. The oversight agency said some of the conduct issues might have occurred after an employee earned a bonus.
While the IRS doesn't prohibit bonuses, "providing awards to employees with conduct issues, especially the failure to pay taxes owed to the federal government, appears to be in conflict with the IRS's charge of ensuring the integrity of the system of tax administration," the report said.
For fiscal 2012, the IRS gave bonuses to about two-thirds of its 98,000 employees. Some lawmakers have been critical of the practice.
The report identified nearly 1,200 employees with tax issues or official-conduct violations during the period who received a total of $1.1 million in monetary bonuses, and about 11,000 hours of time off. One employee who was suspended for 10 days in September 2011 received a $1,300 performance award in August 2012, the report said.
The IRS generally doesn't consider conduct issues when administering bonuses, officials told the watchdog office.
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“So what is their bonus based off of?”
It’s hush money. Keep the natives happy so they don’t rebel. Too many know too much. Can’t have them getting restless. One of them might pull an Ed Snowden and rat the IRS out.
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That's so perfect. Promotion of the guilty. How sad.
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You should have recorded that. It’s hard to find that level of professionalism...
Unfortunately it’s not hard..
My Brother Just retired out of the IRS. People who called him got a smart man. He was 98% accurate on tax questions. He was the one the supervisors would call if they didn’t know the answer.
He said it was a Hell on Earth. And that Obama Care was only going to make working there even worse.
Note to US House Speaker John Boehner:
This is part of the Documentation File for the upcoming 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama to be used by the House Special Prosecutor on Benghazi that has not yet been appointed by you as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, for reasons known only to yourself and Obama.
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* Personal comment footnote:
With each passing day that the US House Members does not replace Speaker Boehner, Speaker (?) Johnny Boehner continues to be THE Poster Boy for what is rotten in the formerly GREAT Republican Party, and the current US House of Representatives.
Yeah he made a point of telling me they had all my information. You could tell he was getting a big ego kick out of it.
Its only going to get worse.
My brother saw it also. The IRS was hiring morons to replace all the old timers that retired. Add to that all the illegals who were trying to use stolen SSNs and parents racing to claim kids for the earned income tax credits to buy 60 inch flatscreens and its a mess.
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