Word: audits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer will select for audit at least 5 million tax returns this year, but the agency lacks the money and manpower to scrutinize all of these. So, as any business would, the IRS concentrates on the 2 million or so returns that seem to offer the greatest potential for "profit." To start, it listens to informers, and if their tips prove to be accurate, can reward them with up to 10% of the extra taxes seized. "Thousands of tips are received every year, and quite a few are generated by a get-even motive," says IRS Spokesman Wilson Fadely. Jilted...
Those found guilty of overdeducting in previous years can expect audits, as can those whose returns were prepared by tax advisers suspected of bending the law. Even simple math mistakes or failure to sign the form can trigger an audit, since agents scanning these "problem" returns may spot irregularities...
...Nixon didn't need someone to bug O'Brien to establish a Hughes connection; Nixon knew positively that O'Brien was on Hughes' payroll. He knew it well before the Watergate burglary; so did the IRS, the Secretary of the Treasury (George Schultz), Colson and I. An IRS audit of Hughes' tax returns had disclosed the Hughes-to-O'Brien payments. A routine IRS Sensitive Case Report informed the President of O'Brien's appearance in the Hughes investigation (along with the President's brother Don and other celebrities). All that is a matter of public record. The Commissioner...
...audit of the School of Public Health (SPH) by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) revealed the improper allocation of federal research funds to cover the salaries of employees in three SPH departments, a recently obtained internal SPH faculty memo shows...
...workshop on women in entry and mid-level positions, Jeanne Khan, the only women in the Defense Audit Agency to serve as an administrative officer, said academic degrees are less important in acquiring top-level positions than the fundamental decision to "select power...