Isn't this further evidence of the classic trick of conservative lawmakers to not fund agencies that they don't like? (OSHA, NLRB, USDA, etc, etc.) They can say they support certain legislation, even schools, but when you look at the day-to-day operations, many of these agencies are just flailing when it comes to performance. Finally, good people in these institutions get fed up and leave... then you do have a management crisis on top of the basic funding problems. -sg
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> New York Times 13 April 2001
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> A Smaller I.R.S. Gives Up on Billions in Back Taxes
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> By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
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> The Internal Revenue Service, its staff reduced by a sixth since 1992
> and its mission shifted to customer service, has virtually stopped
> pursuing more than one million tax delinquents and has sharply
> curtailed other kinds of enforcement.
>
> More than a third of the three million Americans who are behind on
> paying their taxes have had their cases sent to an inactive file
> since the I.R.S. decided in June 1999 not to try to collect their
> debts, according to internal documents provided to The New York Times.
> < partial quote >