The IRS tax examiner who went on the record with O’Keefe Media Group and blew the whistle on the company was retaliated in opposition to, James O’Keefe reported on Friday night.
The whistleblower, David Nelson, mentioned his community entry was revoked on Thursday afternoon.
“We will’t do wherever near what the American folks suppose we are able to,” David Nelsen, Tax Inspecting Technician for the IRS, advised James O’Keefe earlier this week. “We’ve got very antiquated methods. They aren’t built-in. We’re principally handcuffed.”
David Nelson mentioned there was just about no funding to enhance something on the company.
“There’s been no funding for many years to attempt to enhance something,” Nelsen mentioned. “When funding is offered, it’s put in direction of little Band-Assist points as an alternative of the massive drawback of the entire.”
“We even have very antiquated software program. We use a software program referred to as Built-in Knowledge Retrieval System (IDRS),” Nelsen added.
David Nelsen mentioned the outdated software program has led to a bloated workforce and delays in tax processing.
“We might in all probability scale back the dimensions of the IRS considerably with modifications, packages, a centralized stock system, changing IDRS,” he mentioned.
Final month the IRS fired 6,000 workers as President Trump works to cut back the federal workforce.
The IRS is planning to chop as much as 50% of its workforce.
“I’m not afraid of dropping a profession,” Nelson mentioned. “I’ll fall on the sword if it means I can assist the American folks and assist everybody else on the IRS who’re doing their jobs.”
On Thursday, Nelson’s entry to the community was revoked.
When James O’Keefe referred to as the IRS Chief of Media to ask for remark, she refused to reply his questions and hung up the telephone.
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UPDATE: Inner Income Service Revokes Whistleblower David Nelsen’s Entry to Community, IRS Chief of Media Hangs Up on O’Keefe When Pressed for Remark pic.twitter.com/o9NN4MAfaJ
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