IRS Loses Track of 448 Taxpayers Who Owe More Than $1 Million Each

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Instead of telling his Cabinet to make minor reductions in their budgets, President Barack Obama might want to ask the IRS to start collecting more than $1 billion in back taxes that the agency has forgotten about. A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found, after conducting an audit of the IRS’s computer data records, that 448 delinquent accounts—each owing $1 million or more in taxes, penalties and interest—were not being pursued by tax collectors. Auditors determined that a variety of computer or accounting system mistakes had caused the accounts to fall off the radar of IRS officials.

-Noel Brinkerhoff
 
Collection Actions Could Be Accelerated on Some Large Dollar Balance Due Accounts (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration) (PDF)

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