The IRS Inspector General is expected to report on Tuesday that between 2010 and 2012 the IRS held at least 220 conferences for its employees for which it spent about $50,000,000. That's more than one conference per week and more than $22,000 per conference.
At a conference in Anaheim in 2010, some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits,
including baseball tickets and stays in presidential suites that
normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per night. In addition, 15 outside
speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to
talk about "leadership through art".
Most of the spending occurred in 2010; in that year $37,600,000 was spent. In 2012 only $4,900,000 was spent. So, sanity was rising at the IRS.
No comments:
Post a Comment