Senator Dan Coats Sends Letter To IRS

Last updated on Tuesday, February 3, 2015

(UNDATED) - Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined with all Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee to send a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen questioning the IRS’s threats to delay operations and customer service due to budget cuts at the same time the agency fails to rein in wasteful and unnecessary spending.

The senators outlined a number of areas of wasteful and low-priority spending that the IRS has failed to address, including:

Paying millions of dollars in bonuses and giving tens of thousands of paid vacation hours to employees with recently substantiated conduct issues and disciplinary actions, including bonuses to 1,100 employees owing back taxes;
Spending over $23 million and more than 500,000 working hours devoted to union activity, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars for union travel expenses;
Spending billions of dollars every year on information technology systems - roughly twenty percent of its entire budget.

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