Audit: IRS lost more than $400 million
because of broken mail machines
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/10/2022 7:09:04 PM
The IRS cost the government more than $400 million over the last three years because it didn’t bother to fix broken mail machines, the agency’s inspector general said in a new report Thursday. The machines are supposed to automatically identify which envelopes contain payments to Uncle Sam, so they can be quickly processed and deposited. But the 20-year-old machines are in such disrepair that they kept missing envelopes with remitted payments. Employees shut them off and resorted to looking for payments by hand—a much slower process. The delays meant checks were deposited more slowly, costing the government hundreds of millions of dollars in lost interest payments, the inspector
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The door automatically closes. See for yourself.
How could this door be found wide open?
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Within the first week in office, a benevolent dictator would close the IRS entirely. No one else dares touch this massive time-wasting drag on the economy, which also harms our competitiveness internationally, because too many people make money on it. There's the IRS itself, the postal service, tax attorneys, tax accountants, the makers of Turbo Tax et al, and who knows who else, let alone countless soul-crushing hours wasted by people doing their personal taxes, and otherwise irrational moves made by companies and investors simply to work around the ever-changing and unpredictable tax rules.