IRS Fires 71 For Misconduct Under New Law

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 18,2003 | John Connor

[Middle Man]

The Internal Revenue Service fired 71 employees between July 1998 and September 2002 for misconduct under a provision of a 1998 IRS reform law, a new report said.

The General Accounting Office report said the IRS or the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration completed investigations on 3,512 allegations and substantiated 419 as violations, resulting in 71 IRS employees being fired. Among the violations were failures to file tax returns on time and failures to state tax liability accurately. Remedies in other cases included penalties and employees leaving the IRS, the GAO said.

[Middle Man]

The WSJ archives are available to subscribers only, but you can find this story on Page C6 of the Wednesday, March 18, 2003, print edition. Emphases are mine.

[Middle Man]

Better git in your flames quick, kiddies! It seems any discussion of taxes that doesn't tow the government line is verboten on FR nowadays.

As I've said before, I don't make this stuff up. Sorry the truth hurts so bad.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Poohbah]

Gosh, it looks like Section 1203 is starting to have its intended effect. Bully for that.

[Middle Man]

Based on your experience as a former agent: how many more tens of thousands of civilians submitted to IRS threats and intimidation and paid the extortion without knowing what their rights were under the law?

And we shouldn't be sorry that a tough, badly needed law like the 1998 Restructuring and Reform Act is hurting "morale" at your old company. You people brought this on yourselves.

[thinktwice]

Tyrants should be weeded out at all levels of government -- they can be found everywhere within government.

[Middle Man]

I thought an article on tax scam artists that WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT might be more in order under the new censorship rules at FR.

[Middle Man]

BTTT

[Cicero]

I don't know what your gripe is, but this is a perfectly legitimate article. Articles that try to persuade credulous readers that they don't have to pay their income taxes are mischievous, because people can end up in big trouble if they believe them.

[mlo]

As I've said before, I don't make this stuff up. Sorry the truth hurts so bad.

Excuse me? I fail to see the connection between the IRS firing some employees for misconduct and the legal discussion we were having about fraudulent tax schemes.

[HiTech RedNeck]

failures to file tax returns on time and failures to state tax liability accurately

On their own taxes?

[Poohbah]

Exactly.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I guess a bit of poetic justice, though is there any other business that will fire an employee just because they failed a tax audit? The calculation of exact tax liability is sometimes controversial, surprise surprise.

[Poohbah]

Well, most businesses will fire the folks who short the till or overstate expenses.

[HiTech RedNeck]

So all Federal employees should be subject to the same rule? (We'd toss a lot of Dems out of the Congress by that principle, yeehaw!)

[Poohbah]

LOL

[Rodney King]

You are delusional. Many posters have cited the specific court cases that say that you are full of it. In a common law country, courts make law. You are peddling behavior that is going to get my freeper friends thrown in jail.

[Rodney King]

Sorry, to be clear, that is not what your post here is about. But you flagged me because of my posts on your tax avoidance threads.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Did Hell just get a few degrees cooler?

[Rodney King]

Based on your experience as a former agent: how many more tens of thousands of civilians submitted to IRS threats and intimidation and paid the extortion without knowing what their rights were under the law?

There are lots who pay even though they have the knowledge of the law, because they fear the cost and reprisal of asserting their rights.