Sam Gibbons: “a copy of an internal IRS document sent to my office clearly shows that the IRS is using a quota system in evaluating…”

“a copy of an internal IRS document sent to my office clearly shows that the IRS is using a quota system in evaluating employee performance, despite the fact that using quotas was made illegal 9 years ago. This memo clearly shows the handwritten comments of an IRS supervisor stating that the monthly total collected by this employee is only 13 percent of the expected or required total. When confronted with this evidence, the IRS took a play right out of the plausible denial handbook of the White House; oh, yes, they said, we are not using quotas, these are just goals. Plausible denial or goals, whatever the name is or that the IRS assigns to this practice, it must be stopped. I have introduced the Taxpayer Protection Act of 1997, which will once and for all end quotas for the IRS. IRS agents should be determining the correct amount of tax dollars owed, not trying to inflate their numbers so that they may be considered for a promotion. I urge my colleagues to join me in a fight to once and for all end the use of quotas.”