IRS spent $108M of taxpayer's money on porn, romance novels, personal items

A classic example of failure to read the article properly, resulting in a wholly misleading headline (at the time of writing it's 'IRS spent $108M of taxpayer's money on porn, romance novels, personal items').

The Treasury's inspector general for tax administration — the same agency that brought the hammer down on the IRS for singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny — found that IRS workers on the whole stick to the rules when they use government credit cards.

It identified improprieties in only about two-tenths of 1 percent of transactions in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, when IRS workers made 273,000 credit card purchases worth about $108 million.

"The majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly," the report said, adding that "we did not find a significant amount of improper purchases in our limited testing."

The article goes on to discuss examples of improper spending amounting to a few thousand dollars in the most egregious case, as well as some less egregious examples of poor spending controls that were not necessarily fraudulent. A far cry from the headline $108 million claim. I wonder what the OP has to say about this.

Title blatantly false.

It identified improprieties in only about two-tenths of 1 percent of transactions in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, when IRS workers made 273,000 credit card purchases worth about $108 million.

"The majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly," the report said, adding that "we did not find a significant amount of improper purchases in our limited testing."

Shocking aint it? They are like employees on every corporation with expense accounts. Some or many will abuse it.