{"id":991,"date":"2014-12-15T01:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T06:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2014-12-15T01:54:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T06:54:19","slug":"governmental-step-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Governmental Step Child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Total-Tax-Insights-Calculator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Total-Tax-Insights-Calculator-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Total-Tax-Insights-Calculator\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Total-Tax-Insights-Calculator-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Total-Tax-Insights-Calculator.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What do you feel when I say IRS? \u00a0They rank about like Biblical tax collectors in most circles and after their scandalous conference spending along with $2.8 million in bonuses to tax-delinquent employees, it stands to reason. \u00a0But another spending cut for the IRS may worsen the already growing issues in the areas of\u00a0enforcement and customer-service functions that have occurred since the last reduction in funds. \u00a0I mean, who enjoys listening to hold music for an hour just to find out how to properly complete section T-1 on Tax Form IDK WUM 44EZ?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2014\/12\/11\/analysis-spending-bills-irs-cuts-could-harm-tax-enforcement\/\">Analysis: Spending bill\u2019s IRS cuts could harm tax enforcement<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you feel when I say IRS? \u00a0They rank about like Biblical tax collectors in most circles and after their scandalous conference spending along with $2.8 million in bonuses to tax-delinquent employees, it stands to reason. \u00a0But another spending cut for the IRS may worsen the already growing issues in the areas of\u00a0enforcement and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Governmental Step Child?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[206,205,203,202,69,96,204,201],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-customer-service","tag-enforcement","tag-government-budget","tag-government-spending","tag-irs","tag-money","tag-tax-collectors","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}