BEWARE THE AUDIT As another cost-saving strategy, more companies are conducting audits to ensure that only eligible dependents are covered by their health plans.
She spent the next four years as a lawyer at the I.R.S. Office of Chief Counsel, in St . Paul representing the commissioner of the I.R.S. before the U.S. Tax Court and advising agents who were conducting audits and collecting tax assessments.
Many of them, as a new report issued last week by the Pew Centre points out, are conducting audits of the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by their plants and are taking on voluntary targets for emissions cuts.
"I think they are conducting audits that are spinning out of control, and so some genius decided to just get rid of the statute of limitations," said David Marshall Nissman, a former United States attorney for the Virgin Islands who says he has five or six clients currently under audit.
In a report due to be released Friday, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, Daniel R. Levinson, said federal health officials did not know how many clinical trials were being conducted, audited fewer than 1percentt of the testing sites and, on the rare occasions when inspectors did appear, generally showed up long after the tests had been completed.
The state is conducting internal audits of the money given Bridgeport since 1995, and plans to keep auditing the city's books.
IRS spokespersons have declined to say if the agency is conducting such an audit.
