Yet another example of how the government holds itself above the law ...
The Internal Revenue Service can’t
find the receipts from a $4 million agency conference in 2010 – meaning, it
can’t provide the same documentation for business-related travel it requires
Americans to include on tax filings.
CNN reported the snafu Tuesday
evening. Correspondent Dana Bash told host Anderson Cooper that it’s impossible
to determine exactly how much was spent on what. Some of the expenditures that
are still unclear, The Washington Free Beacon reported: Gifts, production of
video spoofs and the charge for hotel rooms, some of which are considered
upscale.
The CNN exchange started with Cooper: “I’ve got to go back to something you said. The IRS facing this audit
actually said they couldn’t find some of their own receipts. Is that for real?
And Bash’s reply, the Free Beacon
reported: “That is for real, Anderson. It is really hard to believe, but the IG
report explicitly says, ‘IRS management could not provide any documentation
detailing how this money was spent.’ At the time, three years ago, this is also
hard to believe, keeping track of and reporting costs of conferences wasn’t
required at the IRS. Shoddy record-keeping wasn’t limited to just these videos.
The IG couldn’t even verify the overall cost of the conference.”
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