{"id":25545,"date":"2015-05-08T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25545"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:53:27","slug":"the-rules-should-apply-equally-to-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25545","title":{"rendered":"The Rules Should Apply Equally To Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the Washington Examiner<\/a> reported that Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> employees who cheated on their taxes were promoted–not punished.<\/p>\n

The article reports on the finding of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nearly one-third of the employees from 2008 to 2013 caught cheating on their taxes received at least one bonus or raise within a year of being disciplined, investigators reported. These rewards include nearly $145,000 in bonuses, almost 900 hours of time-off awards and 30 temporary and permanent promotions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…”Some employees had significant and sometimes repeated tax noncompliance<\/a> issues, and a history of other conduct issues,” the report said. “Moreover, management had concluded that the employees were not credible. Nonetheless, the proposed terminations were mitigated by the IRS Commissioner.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federal law requires that IRS employees guilty of intentional tax law<\/a> violations must be terminated, unless mitigated by the IRS commissioner. Since the IRS doesn’t have a policy to document the reason why intentional tax violators aren’t fired, it was unclear why the employees received lesser discipline.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is time for Congress<\/a> to come up with a tax code that abolishes the IRS. Aside from becoming political, which it was never supposed to be, it has also lost any moral bearing it might have had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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