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Saturday, April 25, 2015

IRS Gives Out $60 Million In Bonuses

A House panel claims the IRS makes poor spending choices and mismanages its resources. The Ways and Means Committee said the agency deliberately cut spending on taxpayer services, but not on employee bonuses. 

A report from the committee finds the IRS reduced its funding for taxpayer services by six percent. But it still gave $60 million dollars in bonuses to its employees. 

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said the agency has 13,000 fewer employees and $1.2 billion less than five years ago. He says that's why only half of callers to the agency get through to a live operator.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

not to mention Lois Lerner's retirement - abolish the IRS!

Anonymous said...

that money should be in all of our pockets, not those government paper pushers

lmclain said...

YOUR tax dollars.
Keep cheering.

Anonymous said...

Bonuses for reps that are rude and hang up the phone on you if they don't understand your question. We are on a payment plan and they told us they could not give us the balance due thatwe owe them. Yep, they sure deserve bonuses alright. Makes me ill.

Anonymous said...

3:00 - hang up!

They don't even bother to answer the phone!

Shut this agency down - and implement a flat tax!

Anonymous said...

Why hang up?? I got a letter that listed a balance that was higher than what I owed. I wanted to get some answers! After talking to three people, I still had no definitive answer. :-(