Items lost by IRS concern Grassley{2,500 computers missing at IRS…}

www.dmregister.com (DeMoins Regester) ^ | 01/10/2002 | JANE NORMAN

[It'salmosttolate]

Washington, D.C. - The Internal Revenue Service has reported it is missing 2,300 computers, and Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa wants to know where they went.

Grassley, in a letter Wednesday to the inspector general for tax administration, said he was concerned about the number of missing IRS items, which also includes six firearms, identification badges and electronic surveillance equipment. The losses were detailed in a report last year, and the Republican has been trying to pin down details since then.

[It'salmosttolate]

All Our Computers Are belong To Who NOW?

[mad puppy]

May want to look in that new office space down in Harlem.

[ko_kyi]

It is probably bad recordkeeping. When I worked there I wiped the hard disks and surplussed a hundred 286 and 386 computers easy.

[TheBattman]

What a huge surprise! Better yet, how much personal info is on those computers?

2500 computers x $2000 = a whole lot more taxes than me and all my friends put together pay........

I would imagine that no-one will be found responsible for this.....

[Capt.YankeeMike]

what the hell do they expect in a den of theives????

[Judith Anne]

I thought I had heard around Y2K that the IRS was modernizing, getting private contractors to help with computer work, and that there was testimony that they were terribly behind and inaccurate in their record-keeping, so much so that it would be a decade at least before they could catch up...anyone else know anything?

And what about the guy who was fasting, to get open hearings on the IRS and the legality of the income tax? After the September 11 terrorist attack, there was no more news...whassup?

[kylaka]

Make that 2000 x 10 cents per pound.... the going rate for about 4 year old computer technology.

[Roger_W_Isom]

I have just only ONE question here folks....

Just HOW IN HELL DO YOU LOSE 2300 Effing COMPUTERS?????? ROFLMAO ONLY in the IRS can you lose 2300 COMPUTERS!!!!:-)))))

[Roger_W_Isom]

Should we Ask Hillary right now to turn those 2300 Computers back ocer to us?????ROFLMAO

[Roger_W_Isom]

Ocer=Over. SORRY.

[Valpal1]

This is why the tax system must be dismantled and replaced by a simple flat tax. The gubmint is simply incompetent to administer a large complex system effectively.

They have no organized records system, much has been lost and destroyed by lazy employees. What records they do have can not be accessed. They cannot fix a simple error like transposed SS digits. It took two years and the intervention of a U.S. Senator to force them to recognise one of my children as a legitimate tax deduction with a valid number

And congress wants it that way! The system is a Rube Goldberg mechanism to frighten and exhaust taxpayers into compliance. Everyone says just pay up, or give up, the money isn't worth the hassle. Tax system reform is #3 on my list of things to fix when I am declared Queen of the Universe.

[Jimbaugh]

EBAY is where they went.

[flamefront]

Isn't the IRS just institutionalized thievery?