house Bill H.R. 4890
Banning IRS Bonuses — Until the Agency Follows a Customer Service Strategy
Argument in favor
There’s no doubt that the IRS needs to improve its customer service, and its employees shouldn’t receive bonuses until a plan to better serve taxpayers is in effect.
04/19/2016
Yes , break the Internal Revenue Service into a million pieces. No bonuses
04/20/2016
Why stop at bonuses? Do away with the entire institution. It's quasi-governmental institutions like the IRS and the Federal Reserve that are absolutely destroying America's economy.
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04/21/2016
I think people need a reminder that bonuses are not a given but a reward for something extra. Something good. How about giving us, the citizens, a bonus for putting up with their shady practices. Yes, there are some good employees in there but when they have key players and a lot of other workers doing bad things to citizens they are paid to service then bonuses are off the table.
Argument opposed
Imposing a ban on bonuses to IRS employees ultimately punishes individual employees and their families rather than causing the broad institutional changes this bill seeks.
04/22/2016
What do regular employees have to do with this? it is not their job, why punish them. I do however have a problem with people owing hugh amounts of money and not being made to pay.
04/22/2016
The IRS is underfunded and staffed. I don't think we need to punish them more, they need more support.
Yes , break the Internal Revenue Service into a million pieces. No bonuses
Why stop at bonuses? Do away with the entire institution. It's quasi-governmental institutions like the IRS and the Federal Reserve that are absolutely destroying America's economy.
The IRS is underfunded and staffed. I don't think we need to punish them more, they need more support.
What do regular employees have to do with this? it is not their job, why punish them. I do however have a problem with people owing hugh amounts of money and not being made to pay.
I think people need a reminder that bonuses are not a given but a reward for something extra. Something good. How about giving us, the citizens, a bonus for putting up with their shady practices. Yes, there are some good employees in there but when they have key players and a lot of other workers doing bad things to citizens they are paid to service then bonuses are off the table.
It punishes individual workers for something those at the top need to fix. If this plan were to stop bonuses going only to those in charge, I'd say go ahead.
Whether the IRS does or doesn't have a strategy has no bearing on the jobs done by 99% of IRS employees. The bill is taking a canon to do what a derringer coul do better. It should be defeated.
Amazing that Congress writes the tax code, assigns the IRS responsibility for enforcing it then repeatably defunds the IRS making it impossible to do their job. THEN Congress tries to makes them the scapegoat for the tax bills Congress wrote! Nothing like failing to take responsibility for one's actions. Congress does NOT deserve their pay, The IRS should not be penalized for Congress dysfunction and Congress's lack of ability to take responsibility for their own actions. Let the IRS do their job with fair pay and bonuses. They deserve it.
Fix the issues not punishing minor individuals who should be receiving bonuses based on their personal performance.
Bonuses should be for individual excellence - do not punish the good ones as well as the bad
Yes - forever. They are public employees not Fortune 100 employees.
Based on my experiences with the IRS and what I hear, it appears that the performance management system needs a re-haul beginning with the basics. The performance objectives should be clear first. Doing this well allows them to keep their jobs. Once this has been put in place, the objectives for bonus needs to be set, which should be above & beyond. In order to do this effectively, there needs to be measures in place to gauge the level of performance. The team's objectives rolls up to the Management staff. I can not imagine a salary increase, never less a bonus, until this is done.
Why should public employees get a bonus? They can't make more than they were supposed to, they only do what they were told to do. If they do less, they should be fired.
Do more. Completely reform the IRS or just get rid of it completely.
I say ban the IRS completely! The IRS is a criminal entity used to steal cash from 'We, The People'! Flat taxes across the board.
There is no doubt needs a overhaul but this is not the fault of the service rep who does their job in a courteous and professional manner-for those who succeed and surpasses this should be rewarded
No bonuses until the IRS is cleaned up. Just a lazy bunch of bureaucrats. Haven't done their jobs in decades.
Why reward bad, inept, and sometimes illegal practices. IMHO, a flat tax of 10% would be the most far to everyone and would cancel the need to even have an IRS.