Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Union prevents Werfel from canceling IRS bonuses as promised
The Daily Caller ^ | 7/11/2013

Posted on 07/11/2013 3:43:11 PM PDT by markomalley

Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel’s promise to suspend taxpayer-funded bonuses to IRS officials might not be fully realized because it will violate a contract between the scandal-plagued agency and a public-employee labor union.

“In this unprecedented budget situation, I do not believe the IRS should pay performance awards this year to employees, managers or executives,” Werfel wrote in an email to IRS employees this week.

“This is not a reflection of the quality or performance of the work done by you and your colleagues, but rather an unfortunate byproduct of the difficult budgetary situation we find ourselves in,” Werfel wrote. The IRS is currently under fire after revelations that it improperly targeted the tax-exempt nonprofit status of conservative groups.

But due to a union contract Werfel will not be able to successfully halt all bonuses this year. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents IRS employees, said that bonuses already promised to unionized IRS workers must be paid, because the bonuses represent work done in 2012, before Werfel canceled bonuses.

The IRS was prepared to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley announced in June. As The Daily Caller reported, the IRS employs 201 full-time union representatives, which prompted outrage from lawmakers.

Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina grilled Werfel in a June 6 hearing on the more than $100,000 in bonuses paid to Sarah Hall Ingram, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division who was later promoted to head the agency’s implementation of Obamacare.

As TheDC has reported, Hall received $103,390 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.

Werfel said he did not have the information about Werfel’s bonuses at his fingertips, and claimed he did not have the “right staff” to figure out how much money Ingram received in bonuses.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: Iowa; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: benghazi; chuckgrassley; dannywerfel; fastandfurious; impeachnow; iowa; irs; markmeadows; northcarolina; sarahhallingram

1 posted on 07/11/2013 3:43:11 PM PDT by markomalley
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: markomalley

This is BS!


2 posted on 07/11/2013 3:45:58 PM PDT by uncitizen (Our days are numbered)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

They just keep pushing don’t they.


3 posted on 07/11/2013 3:46:47 PM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


4 posted on 07/11/2013 3:48:17 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
Ahhh! The rules just won't let Werfel do what he so badly wants to do.

No one expected this! . . .

Did they?

5 posted on 07/11/2013 3:53:38 PM PDT by YHAOS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: YHAOS

“Ahhh! The rules just won’t let Werfel do what he so badly wants to do. “

The question of the day is: Is Werfel a party to the crime or just another putz sent to the IRS to continue in the long line of failed “leaders.” When I see this a$$hole on TV, I say to myself, he’s just stupid enough to do Obama’s bidding. and not know he’s doing it. Face it, you would never appoint anyone named “Danny” to anything but manage some farm club.


6 posted on 07/11/2013 4:04:13 PM PDT by vette6387
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]


7 posted on 07/11/2013 4:10:54 PM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Didn’t he win a Heisman with Florda State?


8 posted on 07/11/2013 4:12:45 PM PDT by jimmygrace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vette6387
Didn't think the /s tag was needed.

Sorry . . . my fault.

9 posted on 07/11/2013 4:15:25 PM PDT by YHAOS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: markomalley; Principled; EternalVigilance; phil_will1; kevkrom; Bigun; PeteB570; FBD; Voter#537; ...

Let us keep piling on!

Perhaps we’ll be able to rid the USA of this evil tax and even more evil tax collection agency!

One hundred years of abuse by our own government ought to be enough!

FairTax ping!

http://www.fairtax.org


10 posted on 07/11/2013 4:52:47 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimmygrace

Different guy — Danny Wuerffel was a Gator.


11 posted on 07/11/2013 4:55:49 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

Never fear the Repubs will fund this monster anyway. There is no way out. You put your enemies in charge of the IRS and play like it is business as usual.


12 posted on 07/11/2013 5:41:36 PM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: YHAOS

“Sorry . . . my fault.”

No fault at all!


13 posted on 07/11/2013 5:45:14 PM PDT by vette6387
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Pull a Progressive on them .... don’t pay them and let them sue and drag it out for years and years and when you finally are close to losing offer to settle at 1/3 rd the amount.


14 posted on 07/11/2013 5:54:04 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The short list would be the list of all administration officials that are NOT pathological liars!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Goreknowshowtocheat

If management is covered by Union contracts at the IRS, it is even worse than we thought!


15 posted on 07/11/2013 5:59:48 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Goreknowshowtocheat

PS HST, you are probably right — the Stupid Party is also the Balless Party!


16 posted on 07/11/2013 6:00:37 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks markomalley.


17 posted on 07/11/2013 7:36:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SENTINEL
They just keep pushing don’t they.

Is it time to make a stand yet? I would LOVE to see a large portion of businesses decide to STOP PAYMENT on automatic tax deductions for employees. You really want to play hardball? COME AND GET YOUR TAX MONEY!
18 posted on 07/12/2013 9:00:09 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: SENTINEL
They just keep pushing don’t they.

Because WE refuse to push back. We should be surrounding every IRS building with pitchforks, tar, feathers and rope.

They won't come out? Burn it down!

19 posted on 07/12/2013 11:07:20 AM PDT by unixfox
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

If there were not already cause to decertify the NTEU this is it.


20 posted on 07/19/2013 4:42:24 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson