Tag: TIGTA

$1.6 billion in stimulus checks still not received by last fall: Treasury

Zach Halaschak · March 24, 2022 9:27 pm

If you're a lousy employee, you now know where to apply for your next job. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Despite warnings, the IRS continues to hire back its bad apples

David Freddoso · July 27, 2017 5:13 pm

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, following testimony before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the fiscal 2018 federal budget. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Inspector general: IRS is still hiring employees it fired for misconduct

Joseph Lawler · July 27, 2017 2:06 pm

From fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2014, the IRS identified 2,960 frivolous reparation claims, or about 1,000 per year. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

Thousands demanding tax credits for slavery

Pete Kasperowicz · October 12, 2016 4:41 pm

IRS ignores watchdog proposal to reduce taxpayer fraud

Gabriella Ciuffetelli · June 9, 2016 7:21 pm

Eight months after Congress requested emails from embattled IRS official Lois Lerner, tax agency employees "magnetically erased" hundreds of backup tapes. (AP Photo)

IRS permanently destroyed up to 24,000 Lerner emails after subpoena

Sarah Bedford, Barbara Boland · June 25, 2015 8:33 pm

The IRS collects most of its money through voluntary compliance with tax laws. But if a tax bill is unpaid, it can be turned over to the Automated Collection System. (AP Photo)

Watchdog: IRS cuts had minimal impact on tax collections

Pete Kasperowicz · June 17, 2015 5:12 pm

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George testifies during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee May 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

IRS employees promoted, awarded after cheating on taxes

Ethan Barton · May 6, 2015 8:31 pm

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has told Congress his agency's ability to respond to taxpayers seeking assistance with their returns has been reduced by budget cuts. (AP Photo)

Far fewer callers seeking assistance are getting through on IRS help lines

Ethan Barton · April 18, 2015 9:58 am

The IRS had previously claimed all of Lerner's emails were lost when her computer crashed and the hard drive was subsequently destroyed. (AP Photo)Â

Lerner pushed Treasury watchdog to back off ‘targeting’ charge in probe

Mark Tapscott · April 10, 2015 5:50 pm

Taxpayers are told the wait could be up to 180 days, but the IRS's records suggest the delay is much longer. (iStock Photo)

Treasury watchdog says IRS ‘misleads’ taxpayers victimized by identity fraud

Sarah Bedford · April 9, 2015 6:36 pm

Cause of Action, a nonprofit oversight group, pressed the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on why it had cited a law written to protect taxpayers against the government in an attempt to instead protect the government against the taxpayers' inquiry. (iStock)

Cause of Action presses IRS on taxpayer data shared with White House

Sarah Bedford · February 25, 2015 1:02 pm