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    Ok, so where is the missing 2 trillion dollars? You seem to be missing the forest for the trees. It’s about hypocrisy, not the highly specific functioning of an inept governmental office.

    Edit: I’ll spell out the hypocrisy. What happens when you fail an audit? You’re forced to pay back the money. What happens when the Pentagon fails their audits? Literally nothing. The 1990 bill has no penalties for failing, none.

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      Ok, so where is the missing 2 trillion dollars?

      That’s for the GAO to figure out. Not me or the IRS. The IRS is already understaffed and funded as is. And both the IRS and DoD are Executive branch. That’s why the audit authority rests with Congress to provide checks against Executive authority.

      You seem to be missing the forest for the trees. It’s about hypocrisy, not the highly specific functioning of an inept governmental office.

      If it’s only about hypocrisy there are still better examples. The DoD doesn’t generate revenue so there isn’t anything to tax. Meaning the IRS shouldn’t be involved.

      If to call out the DoD make it about how they expect this level of accountability with their own suppliers and staff that they’re failing. If to call out the IRS it could go with numerous options unrelated to the DoD.

      As is it doesn’t make sense.

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        The DoD doesn’t generate revenue so there isn’t anything to tax. Meaning the IRS shouldn’t be involved.

        I don’t know how else to say this. It’s not about specific agencies applying what penalty or anything else like that. It’s the fact that there are no penalties for the DoD for failing an audit.

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          So about my prior comment on ignorance of the government. Congress owns making penalties happen. As stated, this post suggests it’s the IRS not doing their job.

          You’re welcome to come up with an alternative interpretation of what’s plainly stated. But we can do better than misrepresenting the issues this post does a crappy job of bringing up.

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            Ok, I see where you’re coming from. I looked past the error to see the point of what they meant. You’re stating the obvious that the IRS isn’t involved with government agency audits. We’re arguing about 2 different things.

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              It’s not obvious unfortunately. Otherwise I wouldn’t bother.

              People have been repeating versions of this same post across social media for weeks. With common replies asking why the IRS isn’t doing anything about it.

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                I have a follow up question, sorry to re-derail this, I’m also from elsewhere so have no idea about freedom financials and audits:

                Even when the GAO completes their audit, will it really be of any use if every other line item reads “classified”: $stonkbucks?