Word: audits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wise? The most troubling questions that grow out of the presidential audit involve matters not of legality so much as of propriety. Is it really wise for a President to become so in debted to one man, no matter how trusted a friend? There is no indication that Abplanalp ever tried to take advantage of his lender's role, but any large businessman as dealings with the Government, and any presidential friend acquires a certain power in business...
...that this Administration is the first to use the IRS for partisan purposes. Past Presidents have sporadically called upon the IRS to audit the income tax returns of certain political opponents or anybody else who made an undue amount of trouble for them. Usually such investigation turns up nothing. But as in other areas of government, the Nixon Administration has overreacted and overorganized...
...What?" yelled the monitor. "You can't audit this class. Your money isn't on the list and you didn't pay your name to audit. Greedy person...
...people audit classes? Why can't a professor decide whether or not someone can listen to his or her lecture. Those that want to buy their credits and diplomas can do so, as well as those who want to have it recorded that they went to Haaaaavard. All can have their cake and eat it too. But why send Oliver Twist to bed hungry? Would a few extra bowls of knowledge really bankrupt THE Corporation? Some people think education is priceless; by requiring people to pay money, others make education worthless. I am one, I speak for many. My name...
...promised to resist any attempts to use the IRS for political purposes. Dean's testimony also set in motion an investigation by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, chaired by the formidable Wilbur Mills. The IRS has launched a probe to find out who authorized the audits of Gibbons and Greene. That may be impossible to discover. Dean said he had been told that all that is required for an audit is an expertly worded anonymous letter to a regional IRS office...