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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: IRS staff promotions based on collections/seizures
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Quotas? Naaaaaa! That would mean that
cops have ticket quotas too. NAAAAAAA!! 8-]
DOJ attorney have indictment quotas?
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
/s/ Paul Mitchell
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p.s. See "The Kick-Back Racket" in the
Supreme Law Library at the URL just below
my name here.
At 11:45 AM 9/21/97 +0000, you wrote:
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/111599.asp
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> IRS accused of collection quotas
> Senate committee set to hear employee testimony
> ASSOCIATE
> D PRESS
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> WASHINGTON - Current and former IRS workers
> are preparing to tell a Senate committee the
> agency evaluates and promotes staff based on
> collections and property seizures, Senate staff
> members said Saturday. The Internal Revenue
> Service denies workers are judged by such a
> quota system, which was outlawed in 1988.
>
> Some 1,000
> taxpayers
> contacted the
> Senate committee,
> complaining of
> mistreatment by
> the IRS.
>
> SENATE DEMOCRATS and the Clinton
> administration meanwhile assert Republicans
> intend to use examples of IRS agents'
> misdeeds at next week's hearings to bash the
> agency as part of an effort to promote a GOP
> version of tax reform. Some Republicans want
> to abolish the agency.
> The Senate Finance Committee hearings
> will feature
> current and former agents testifying behind
> screens, some with their voices masked by
> electronic devices to avoid identification.
> An additional metal detector and extra police
> were being discussed for the hearing room.
> Some Democrats have complained quietly
> that
> Republicans, who control the committee, are
> engaged in overkill that could be
> counterproductive.
> Finance Committee spokeswoman Ginny
> Flynn insisted
> the unusual measures to conceal witnesses'
> identities are "not for drama. ... We're
> doing this at their request."
> The committee chairman, Sen. William
> V. Roth Jr.,
> R-Del., "is annoyed at the partisanship going
> on here," Flynn said Saturday.
> "He wants these hearings to make a
> difference at the
> IRS for the taxpayer. He doesn't want to see
> this as fodder for fund raising or 30-second
> campaign ads," she added.
> Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott,
> R-Miss., and the
> chairman of the National Republican
> Senatorial Committee, Sen. Mitch McConnell of
> Kentucky, have mailed out fund-raising
> letters in recent weeks that call for
> overhauling the IRS.
> Roth launched an investigation of IRS
> collection abuses
> six months ago, and plans three days of
> hearings next week on the topic. Some 1,000
> taxpayers contacted the committee complaining
> of mistreatment by the IRS, one of the most
> powerful law enforcement agencies in
> government.
> Armed with special authority to review
> confidential
> taxpayer records, Senate investigators
> documented several cases of abuse after
> examining IRS files and interviewing agents.
> IRS spokesman Frank Keith said the
> agency reviewed
> some of these cases and found that "there
> were mistakes that were made that had
> significant impacts on these taxpayers. We
> have apologized to those taxpayers."
> One theme in the hearings concerns
> whether such
> abuses are driven by pressure on agents to
> meet collection quotas. The IRS denies using
> such tactics, but Republican investigators
> say the agency makes clear to workers that it
> expects them to "keep their `stats' up."
> The witnesses will suggest the IRS
> pursues taxpayers
> less likely to hire accountants or attorneys
> to challenge a collection notice, said a
> Republican member of the committee staff,
> speaking on condition of anonymity.
> Collections undeniably are a major
> issue at the IRS,
> with the agency under pressure by Congress to
> close the $93 billion "tax gap," a measure of
> delinquent and insufficient tax payments on
> noncriminal income. To close that gap, IRS
> agents last year collected $29.8 billion in
> delinquent tax payments, including 10,000
> property seizures.
> The Taxpayer Bill of Rights of 1988
> prohibited the IRS
> from using tax collections or other
> enforcement results to evaluate employees or
> their immediate supervisors.
> "It is not the means by which
> employees or managers
> are evaluated," said Keith, the IRS
> spokesman. Revenue officers are evaluated on
> how efficiently they handle a case, including
> instances in which they recommend no
> collection activity if a taxpayer lacks the
> ability to pay, he said.
> The IRS gathers statistics on
> collections and seizures,
> but uses the information generally to
> evaluate operations in district offices and
> the overall efficiency of the agency in
> accomplishing its mission.
> For example, collections data might
> show one IRS
> district lags behind another, even though
> they have similar caseloads, which could
> alert managers to see if agents have proper
> training or support to make full use of their
> collections powers.
>
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