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Sunday, January 8, 2017

IRS Prioritized Obamacare Over Taxpayer Customer Service, Inspector General

January 08, 2017 Inspector General , IRS Prioritized Obamacare Over Taxpayer Customer Service 1 Comments


By Washington Times, Jan. 05, 2016 

The IRS made the 2015 tax season more painful for taxpayers than it should have been, the agency’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that accused the agency of cutting money for customer service and ignoring phone calls while moving the money over to keep Obamacare and other administration priorities on track.

IRS employees ignored more than 30 million phone calls from desperate taxpayers seeking help in the run-up to the 2015 filing deadline — and those who did get through often waited a half-hour before getting help.

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Brazen!

August 09, 2014 IBD , Inspector General 0 Comments
41 IG's Send Unprecedented Letter To Congress: WH Is Preventing Oversight/Investigations

IBD Editorials, Aug. 8, 2014, News.investors.com

Orwellian: Another official in the "most transparent administration" claims to have lost emails sought by investigators, while dozens of government auditors complain that Obama officials repeatedly obstruct their probes.

Anyone who has ever tried to pry any information out of President Obama's administration comes to the same conclusion: Despite repeated promises of openness, it is the most paranoid, controlling and impenetrable in history.

Take the plight of the inspectors general.

In an unprecedented letter to Congress, 47 IGs blasted the administration for "serious limitations on access to records" that have impeded their investigations. The letter specifically cited cases at the Justice Department, the EPA and the Peace Corps, the latter of which had been withholding — of all things — sexual assault records against its volunteers.

"Even if we are ultimately able to resolve these issues," they told lawmakers, "the process is often lengthy, delays our work, and diverts time and attention from substantive oversight activities."

Meanwhile, a Health and Human Services official claims to have deleted some of the emails sought by a congressional probe into the Healthcare.gov launch fiasco.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa says the number of administration witnesses who have conveniently lost or destroyed emails now totals 20.

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