I have just read the current GAO report on the IRS's ability to stop tax thieves from stealing tax returns from unsuspecting U.S. Citizens. There is hardly a human being who dosn't know about this kind of theft and how it is growing. It will not make anyone feel better to know that IRS's own internal controls are still not what they should be and employees continue to make mistake after mistake in processing cases that are not verified properly before the refund is checked out.
When I was in the IRS in 1990 we submitted a security review that said about the same things the GAO is saying now. These are people who don't get it and don't want to get it. They are managed by the same bunch of political- appointees (employees who are appointed by the Administration and can't be fired without their approval) who kept a lid on approvals of any group not meeting their rigid (Democratic) standards. Groups are still waiting for those approvals to operate with tax exempt status, some of them for years. Perhaps it is time to depoliticize the IRS and get them moving on their internal security controls. Twenty-five years is a long time.
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