IRS Whistle-Blowers: Agency Executives Behind Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Tax Giveaways

[kpete]

IRS Whistle-Blowers: Agency Executives Behind Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Tax Giveaways


A veteran Internal Revenue Service attorney demands a congressional audit of the IRS to investigate the agency's alleged role in allowing US corporations to illegally avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes even as it cracks down on individuals and small businesses.

A 10-year veteran Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attorney has demanded a congressional audit of the IRS to investigate the agency's alleged role in allowing US corporations to illegally avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes even as it cracks down on individuals and small businesses.

In a letter to Treasury secretary Jacob Lew, IRS commissioner John A. Koskinen and IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, Jane J. Kim, an attorney in the IRS Office of the Chief Counsel in New York, accused IRS executives of "deliberately" facilitating multibillion-dollar tax giveaways. The letter, dated October 19, will add further pressure on the agency, which is under fire for allegedly targeting conservative and Tea Party groups.

Kim, who has previously blown the whistle on "gross waste of government resources" in the IRS New York field offices, wrote in her new letter that senior IRS officials have "intentionally undermined the authority of the IRS Whistleblower Office (WO)" to avoid taking action "in cases involving billions in corporate taxes due." The IRS also refuses to enforce laws for "large corporate taxpayers," resulting in giveaways of further billions, despite applying the same laws with "draconian strictness to small business, the self-employed, and wage-earning individuals."

The IRS attorney's letter was copied to Jason Foster, chief investigative counsel for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, as well as several other senators and House representatives, including Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders, Charles Grassley, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. They could not be reached for comment.


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[Turbineguy]

1. Wasn't there a GW Bush program to infiltrate

Liberty U "educated" political hack appointees into government agencies who then later were converted to the Civil Service system?

[WhiteTara]

3. Yes, they spent the last several months packing

agencies with their cronies.

[Faux pas]

2. So surprised!

Not.

[indepat]

4. Large corporations are a privileged group of people not required pay taxes like other people

or be held accountable for their criminality. After all, the bidness of America is bidness.