You know how the Obama IRS has been whining about being underfunded? Apparently they have enough in the coffers to hire $1,000 per hour Washington DC lawyers to conduct a audit of Microsoft. The lawfirm getting your tax payer dollars is Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.
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| IRS hires $1,000 an hour lawyers – you pay |
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is paying a Washington law firm $1,000 an hour in taxpayer money to perform a corporate audit, despite its claim of being severely underfunded.
The IRS’ $2.2 million contract with big-money firm Quinn Emanuel has sparked a Senate Finance Committee investigation, with the committee’s chairman saying that the IRS “appears to violate federal law.”
Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote a letter this month to IRS commissioner John Koskinen stating his concerns relating to the contact, which pays Quinn Emanuel $1,000 an hour to perform an audit of Microsoft.
Hatch said that the contract appears to violate laws against the IRS sharing confidential taxpayer information with third parties.