Robbing Peter To Pay Paul

The Treasury inspector general is urging the IRS to collect money owed to it by other federal agencies. In one case, the Treasury Department itself never paid the IRS $26 million. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration looked at interagency work done by IRS. It found IRS officials didn't always get an accurate count on their overhead costs. So they didn't always charge other agencies the right amount. The IG says that runs against the IRS' own regulations. In 2011, the IRS took on 89 jobs for other agencies.