Do you remember when the IRS asked you for receipts to prove that expenses you’d written off on your taxes were genuine, and you replied, “I can’t find them,” and then they said, “that’s OK, just forget about it”? Neither do we.
Put on your irony waders before venturing into this story from the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard:
The Treasury Department’s audit of the Internal Revenue Service’s 225 employee conferences that cost taxpayers nearly $50 million might not be accurate or include all of the IRS expenses because the agency that daily demands records from taxpayers didn’t supply all the receipts sought by the investigators.
In the new audit, which details lavish spending for presidential hotel suites, expensive speakers and exorbitant payments for trinkets including travel mugs and clocks, the Treasury inspector general’s office said that it couldn’t stand by some of the figures in the report because IRS officials didn’t provide documentation.
Many agree that the agency in charge of auditing clearly needs a comprehensive audit:
I think we should demand every single receipt of every single IRS expenditure that last 30 years. Let's AUDIT THEM!
— Micky Baker (@MickyBaker1) June 4, 2013
https://twitter.com/largebill68/status/342353502758129664
Will $4.1 million buy a lot of cocaine and hookers, if you don't need a receipt? Asking for a friend. #IRS
— Area Man (@lheal) June 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/ken24xavier/status/342337486544044033
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In fairness no one expects the Spanish Inquisition, or that the IRS might need to save receipts.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) June 5, 2013
Do as they say, not as they do. The federal govt at its worst… $4M spent by IRS and not 1 receipt to show for it. http://t.co/Oeie94E3t0
— Adam Putnam (@adamputnam) June 5, 2013
IRS demand colonoscopy of conserv groups but has no records on $4 million conference.. Image when they run healthcare http://t.co/PzzqqvMOhv
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 5, 2013
Jon Stewart on IRS scandal: "Where's your receipts, a******?" http://t.co/ndf2iuftIA
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) June 4, 2013
And the prize for “Rhetorical Question of the Day” goes to…
The #IRS can't find its receipts so that means everybody gets a pass for their next audit, right?
— WUHAN!!! I Got You All In Check! (@Pqlyur1) June 5, 2013
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