{"id":44589,"date":"2014-04-23T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44589"},"modified":"2014-04-23T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:17:15","slug":"irs-pays-bonuses-to-tax-delinquent-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44589","title":{"rendered":"IRS pays bonuses to tax-delinquent employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess not paying your taxes on time is a big deal if you&#8217;re an IRS employee, or at least that&#8217;s the message <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/irs-awards-bonuses-1-100-owe-back-taxes-202455830--politics.html\">that they send<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 2,800 workers got bonuses despite facing a disciplinary action in the previous year, including 1,150 who owed back taxes, said a report by J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. The bonuses were awarded from October 2010 through December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s report said the bonus program doesn&#8217;t violate federal regulations, but it&#8217;s inconsistent with the IRS mission to enforce tax laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These awards are designed to recognize and reward IRS employees for a job well done, and that is appropriate, because the IRS should encourage good performance,&#8221; George said. &#8220;However, while not prohibited, providing awards to employees who have been disciplined for failing to pay federal taxes appears to create a conflict with the IRS&#8217;s charge of ensuring the integrity of the system of tax administration.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They won&#8217;t pay taxes on the money that they earned, so give them more money &#8211; makes perfect sense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess not paying your taxes on time is a big deal if you&#8217;re an IRS &hellip; <a title=\"IRS pays bonuses to tax-delinquent employees\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44589\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRS pays bonuses to tax-delinquent employees<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}