You probably think I’m making an Onion post.
Sadly I wish I was.
Yahoo News reports:
A new report from the Government Accountability Office inspected the tax agency’s financial statements from the 2009 fiscal year with the exacting thoroughness of, well, of an IRS auditor, and found a few billion-dollar errors.
According to the report (PDF), the IRS made a variety of accounting errors last year that “could adversely affect the reliability of its financial statements” and result in “duplicate or erroneous refunds.” Among the mistakes were a “failure to record the receipt of a taxpayer’s $3 million payment” and an $8 billion discrepancy between two accounting systems tracking how much money taxpayers owe. The audit also found a $5.1 billion “unexplained variance” between the total amount the agency took in last year and the amount its detailed tax files said it took in.
But what’s a few billion here or there, right?
Jeff, the reporter, then goes on to make excuses.
As if a few billion is really no big deal in the large scheme of things.
Yeah Jeff, its no big deal.
Its only your money getting pocketed by a bunch of thieving crooks that loot you at gun point.
But I guess Jeff likes having guns pointed at him, being deprived of his property, and then having it spent on bureaucrats booze and partying.
