They claim this is a training video, please follow the link and watch for yourself. This crapola is what they are spending our tax dollars on. But, OOOOOoooooo, close the air traffic control towers because we don't have anywhere else to cut, that's what they'd have you believe. The IRS has it's own Television Studio that cost $4 million last year???? Now to put things in perspective the Democrats in the Senate passed a budget calling for $1 trillion in new taxes, ostensibly to pay for things like the IRS's television studio so they can produce Star Trek parodies. If this weren't true it would be a terribly bad joke. But raising taxes is always the answer for Democrats. When they don't get their way, they jeopardize taxpayers safety by closing air traffic control towers and release criminal aliens back into the public. We've got 20 months to endure their idiocy before we can kick as many as we can out in 2014.
If that is an acceptable answer according to the IRS, then that is what I will put on my tax return... my income last year is "thought to be about" $60,000 dollars.
The set was pretty good, and so were the uniforms. Very ill fitting though. They should have splurged to get a proper costume person. It's only someone else's money after all.
The IRS has more than 100,000 employees so a studio for training videos isn't a bad idea and training videos (which this obviously is) are part of most large organization's employee education toolbox. The video itself is pretty hookey but so are the ones my company produces sometimes. My second point is the FOI request necessary for CBS to get a copy of this. That is absolutely ridiculous. The video is not confidential or sensitive material so no FOI should be needed. Just hand a copy over and charge CBS for the cost of the copy and handling. Forcing an FOI request for something so innocuous wastes money and gives everyone the impression they're trying to hide something.
Or they could have contracted it for 10k with an actual training video... and also not paid for a complete production studio... - - - Updated - - - You KNOW they would.
Depends on the audit, whether it is a criminal investigation audit or a complaince audit. With a compliance audit, we generally ask you for proof of information and discuss how you come up with the figures. With a criminal investigation audit, that is where we stop playing nice. - - - Updated - - - You do know what the theme of the video was, don't you?
Most IRS training videos don't go this route and this video was probably an ice breaker for new RA's or RO's.
It's a pretty bad video. They used the 1960's version of the Enterprise bridge, but had them wearing 1980's Next Generation uniforms! Trek fail!
New crew stuck on an old ship??? Not the first time it's happened. Getting on board an old A class might be needed in a pinch... Suspension of disbelief upheld.
No. The video talks about several things including the political environment that the IRS works under, several different types of tax issues, and an example of a revenue collection example.
KIRK: Okay everyone, as you know, our taxes are due into the United Federation of Planets Tax Division by the next star date. So Mr. Spock and I are holding a ship-wide meeting to handle any tax questions you might have. Who's first - yes, you in the front with the teleprompters. You're - ? OBAMA: Commander Barack Obama, Interstellar Community Organizer. Look, I wanted to know if I can claim my wife's butt as a dependent. KIRK: Hmm, that's the butt as big as the Guardian of Forever, right? SPOCK: Under the Xenolegal Tax Act of 2252, all life-forms over the size of a standard shuttle-craft are able to file as dependents IF they show limited sentience. KIRK: Next question - yes, the goofy looking guy in the back. BIDEN: Yo! Joe Biden, Duotronic Pod-Scrubber, Second-Class! Hey, can I write off my shotgun as a tax deduction? I been firing it at them Andorians every chance I get! SPOCK: You know the Andorians are our allies, right? BIDEN: Whoopsie! Guess ol' Joe really IS a space cadet! KIRK: Anyone else? HILLARY: Hey, can I still claim as dependents all the people who died during my away mission on Planet Benghazi? SPOCK: In that case, logic suggests you would need to attend a hearing before the UFC Tax Board. HILLARY: What difference would that make? Well, never mind - all of a sudden, I just got a concussion! KIRK: Well, is that all? SPOCK: There is one thing Captain. That Orion slave-girl you've been hiding in the shuttlebay? You can't claim her as a tax write-off. KIRK: Nuts!
IRS hasn't used red shirts since the 1950/s. It resembles too much to the GOP party colors. But the IRS has found a new color and it is called pink. There, you will wear pink under garments on top of your heads to idenfiy convicted tax cheats in prison.
Remember that congress passed the laws that allow spending. I think that Obama is a fool but if we can get a congress that understand what a budget is we can get this under control and them Obama is powerless. All he can do is spend money playing golf and figure out how to explain what Biden says.
People that claim they don't mind paying more money to the government, considering how the government pisses your money away, must be the dumbest people in all of creation.
