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Thursday, January 28, 2016

The IRS Scandal, Day 994

IRS Logo 2The Fiscal Times, Here We Go Again … IRS Destroys Another Hard Drive:

The Internal Revenue Service appears to have violated a court order once again requiring the preservation of evidence needed by investigators looking into questionable practices at the agency. In a case sure to stir up memories of the Lois Lerner investigation, which saw IRS Commissioner John Koskinen dragged before Congress for multiple hearings, the agency destroyed a computer hard drive belonging to an IRS official connected to the subject of a Congressional query.

Earlier this year, the IRS was ordered by a federal judge to preserve documents – including electronic documents – that were possibly related to an ongoing dispute between the agency and Microsoft. ...

The computer hard drive the IRS destroyed belonged to Samuel Maruca, who oversaw the transfer pricing section at the agency’s Large Business and International division. ...

The revelation that the agency had destroyed a hard drive that Congressional investigators viewed as central to an ongoing inquiry infuriated House Oversight and Investigations Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/01/the-irs-scandal-day-994.html

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Comments

A clear pattern of behavior at the IRS and also throughout this administration.

Posted by: Wodun | Jan 28, 2016 4:15:45 PM