Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ audit ’

Legislative auditors who tested the state’s 1.3 million homestead property tax credits found that between 8,400 and 109,000 recipients are not eligible. (The wide range is due to the fact that the auditors examined only 114 properties). Following on reports in the Baltimore Sun more than a year ago, the auditors report (PDF link)...
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Those interested in the struggle (and why is this a struggle? Everyone agrees, right?) to get an audit of the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks ought to tune in to the Marc Steiner Show tonight at 5 p.m. (less than an hour from now, sorry) on WEAA, 88.9 FM. From Steiner: “Tune...
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The city will be refunding $4.2 million to residents who were overbilled for water and sewer services for years. The Board of Estimates voted to make the payments Wednesday morning, according to a story in The Baltimore Sun, after receiving an audit of the Department of Public Works Bureau of Water and Waste Water....
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TRAC, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, has posted Part 2 of its series on IRS audits–or lack thereof–of large financial-services corporations. On Monday, TRAC (which filed Freedom of Information Act requests and then analyzes the data it receives) showed that the IRS devoted only 15 percent of its big company revenue agents to the...
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The Office of Legislative Audits posted a gem last week: 34 pages examining the checks and balances on the state’s welfare overseers. You can find the whole thing here, but the highlight is this: Food stamps and welfare checks went out to hundreds of deceased recipients for several years. According to the audit, the...
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