IRS Spends $188,000 on Clerical Contract (1 clerk)

Source: Associated Press

IRS Spends $188,000 on Clerical Contract

By JIM ABRAMS
Thursday, December 20, 2007; 2:56 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service paid a
contractor $188,000 to provide one person to do
clerical work over 11 months.

The contract was included as one example of financial
waste in a government report Thursday on the tax
agency's involvement in a new program ordered by
President Bush in 2004 to develop more secure ID cards
for federal workers.

The Treasury Department's inspector general for tax
administration said the IRS also needlessly spent almost
$2 million on a computer security system that the tax
agency doesn't plan using at this time.

The IRS was responsible for developing and implementing
the program for providing more secure identification
cards to some 150,000 employees at the Treasury
Department. The projected cost of the Treasury program
was put at $421 million over 14 years.

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There is probably so much waste like this in the Government, that if you
cut all of these things out, we would have lower taxes, and a surplus
When I was in the Air Force, I saw SO much waste.......:hi:

Projects are often "measured" according to the rate at which they spend money, the theory being that if you're spending at the rate you initially planned, you're on track. If you're behind in one area (say, developing a software application), you can accelerate another area (say, purchasing the hardware, which this project did). The net result is that from a dollars point of view, it looks like your project is doing fine. Unfortunately the truth is the opposite - your project is completely fucked!