IRS pays bonuses to tax-delinquent employees
I guess not paying your taxes on time is a big deal if you’re an IRS employee, or at least that’s the message that they send.
More than 2,800 workers got bonuses despite facing a disciplinary action in the previous year, including 1,150 who owed back taxes, said a report by J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. The bonuses were awarded from October 2010 through December 2012.
George’s report said the bonus program doesn’t violate federal regulations, but it’s inconsistent with the IRS mission to enforce tax laws.
“These awards are designed to recognize and reward IRS employees for a job well done, and that is appropriate, because the IRS should encourage good performance,” George said. “However, while not prohibited, providing awards to employees who have been disciplined for failing to pay federal taxes appears to create a conflict with the IRS’s charge of ensuring the integrity of the system of tax administration.”
They won’t pay taxes on the money that they earned, so give them more money – makes perfect sense to me.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Taxes
“Even without a formal policy in place over the past four years, the IRS has not issued awards to any executives that were subject to a disciplinary action,” the IRS said in a statement. “We are also considering a similar policy for the entire IRS workforce, which would be subject to negotiations with the National Treasury Employees Union.”
/and we’re done here…nothing to see folks, just move along…..
Bureaucrats are members of the protected political class-especially since these particular bureaucrats have shown that they can be reliably counted on to go after those that that class has designated as its enemies.
Can’t expect them to live by the same rules as the rest of us peons.
I think I read IRS and integrity…hum.
The stupid… it hurts.
The continued weaponization and internal remaking and rewarding the IRS for borderline criminal behavior continues apace.
Laws are for serfs.
Another report on this explains how hard it is to “withold” money from IRS employees because of the union that most of them belong to. Last I checked, wage garnishment rules/laws don’t care if you’re union or not.
When was the last time anyone ever heard of a Government bureaucrat being fired due to incompetence? Government Eployee Unions need to be outlawed, PRONTO.
well, the good news is, we’ve uncovered a PX we can close which will more than make up the difference….
well, the good news is, we’ve uncovered a PX we can close which will more than make up the difference….