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I get the intent here, but it's a really bad comparison. It's certainly easy to get confused about without base level awareness of finance and accounting things.
The DoD is a government cost center. It doesn't generate revenue. Therefore nothing to tax. Meaning nothing for the IRS to audit.
That's why the federal government has other audit authorities and often contracts independent auditors to help. Those people are auditing department spending and assets related though. This type of audit is not to check if taxes are owed. It's more like making sure the department bank account is correct to keep this simple.
This. Congress is in control of auditing the Pentagon.
The most the IRS would do would be auditing the incomes of people who work at the Pentagon.
Badly put together meme.
Also the pentagon has a sizable black budget that can't reasonably be audited. Now you may not agree with such a budget but goddamn does some cool shit come out of it.
Yes, the DOD has a purposefully created black hole for money specifically to keep records of intelligence operations, special operations, and tech/strategical development at a minimum. Everyone in the government with any influence over the DOD knows this. So the shocked pikachu faces when it turns out they can't be audited are clearly fake.
Not saying I agree with this corruption, just that anyone in the federal government acting concerned, or outraged, knew this going in, so this isn't a surprise. Though I would not be surprised if a few congresspeople were just that stupid...
The Pentagon's accounting challenges, including $35 trillion in adjustments and systemic oversight issues, are largely due to complex and inefficient financial management systems, not directly linked to black ops or secret operations.
These issues stem from repetitive accounting practices and inadequate financial controls within the department.
The audit failures reflect systemic management and reporting problems, rather than deliberate efforts to conceal black ops or secret operation expenditures.
The situation indicates a need for better financial systems and oversight, rather than suggesting a hidden agenda related to secretive military activities. Why?
The Pentagon made $35 trillion in “accounting adjustments” in 2019. These adjustments involve a lot of double, triple, and even quadruple counting of the same money as it got moved between accounts within the Pentagon.
This vast number dwarfs the defense-related funding in the U.S. budget and underscores the difficulty the Defense Department faces in balancing its books.
These adjustments highlight the persistent lack of internal financial controls at the Pentagon, making it extremely difficult to account properly for spending in the largest government budget. Link
I am not sure, but you may have misunderstood my point. The DOD has a measure, intentionally put in place, to obfuscate the use of funds. If it has a program to do this intentionally, of course it's going to have a problem with unintentional accounting issues, incompetence, lack of cohesive regulation, graft, etc. going on. What I am saying is that something with an intentional structure for black spending goes hand in hand with general bad accounting practices. Especially something as segmented as the DOD. The structure it's self implies incompetence and intent.
I also want to add that many landlords were beginning to demand that their tenants pay with venmo, or other e-payment services, and those leeches need to pay their taxes.
Which the IRS has acted on, and most these platforms have to send documents to the IRS for anyone that crosses a certain threshold. They are going to have to prove it isn't income or claim it.
I found this article on the audit. It's also about boring but necessary things like stockpile management, automation, climate risk, and bookkeeping. It's broken into 30 sub-audits. It sounds like all of these must be fully passed as "clean" for an audit to not be considered failing.
Yep, I'm not sure why folks think this is anything more than some company lost a gas mask somewhere. It's me... I'm the problem it's me.
s/IRS/GSA/