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 | Happy to be in DOR I am a DOR Indian. I came to the DOR from another state agency. What I have found here is competent management, professionalism and the desire to promote a good work environment. My previous state agency, DBPR, was / is a disaster. As the old saying goes: "a fish rots from the head down." I made the jump and I'm glad I did. Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side. ....Greener Grasser, 5/4/03 |
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Let the fox guard the hen house?Everyone who has worked with CPA's doing sales
tax audits for the state knows it's a big scam. The CPAs
audit and find that their clients owe $1,000 while a state auditor
would have found $200,000. Yes it's that bad! Yet the
powers that be don't want to have any bad news brought to them.
They will shoot the messenger. DOR in Tallahassee puts on a smilie
face and pretends that everything is kosher. It's not!
Hasn't Enron, Global Crossing, World Com, Sunbeam, Waste
Management, Adelphia etc. etc. ect. taught us how much we can rely
on the integrity of CPAs?
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| A good example of the destructive things that can happen when
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| A good example of ineffective government ... is (when) the tax
Revenue auditors with the department of Revenue are to afraid to
sanction employers who fail to pay unemployment taxes. (The)
accountants of these corporations and businesses know that if they
intimidate the auditors with threats of putting them on report, these
career service employees fear loss of their employment therefore
they look the other way. The Union is asking state employees to take a stand they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. People Count! People can make a change people vote. State employees will be demonstrating at the office of Representative Maaario Diaaaz-Balart on saturday, March 31, 2001, at 11:00 A M. The address is 7902 NW 36 Street. If you wish to have additional information call 1 800 277-1467. This is America we deserve and expect government to be accountable to the people and for the people. State employees will rally at the Rhodes building located in Miami at 401 NW 2nd avenue on Friday March 30, 2001, at twelve noon. We do not intend to stand by and allow Jeb to destroy Our Florida. We invite all citizens to come together and join forces to send a strong message Our Florida is not a Banana Republic. Tell Jeb No Way. Peace unto all people of God. 3/28/01 Liz of Miami |
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| Audit
program puts honor system to test With accounting scandals grabbing headlines and Congress haggling over new laws to make companies act more responsibly, it's no wonder that some business ethicists are looking askance at a pilot program in Florida that lets private CPAs do the people's work. 7/19/02 |
| Auditors'
Dual Role Draws Ire Of IRS - TALLAHASSEE - A national
accounting firm given broad leeway in Florida to perform state tax
audits on behalf of its own clients is being accused by federal
authorities of helping hundreds of companies flout U.S. tax laws.- Although none of the allegations against KPMG involves the firm's participation in the fledgling Florida program, it raises questions about letting companies sidestep state auditors by shopping for private auditors from a state-approved list.- Business ethicists compare it to the fox guarding the hen house, noting that accounting firms can serve dual roles. They can fill in for state auditors to ensure tax laws are followed on the one hand while continuing to serve companies as their private tax strategy advisers on the other. 7/11/02 |
| Florida's
Privatized Tax Audits To Continue - TALLAHASSEE - Despite
eroding confidence in corporate accounting nationwide, Florida wants
more companies to hire private firms to perform tax audits to ease the
Department of Revenue's workload. The push is part of a test project supported by Gov. Jeb Bush and kept alive this year by the Florida Legislature. It is intended to encourage corporations to use independent, state-certified auditors rather than the state tax agency. Companies taking advantage of the program don't have to pay financial penalties or interest on unpaid sales taxes discovered by the auditors they hire, and they avoid compliance audits by the state Department of Revenue. 7/10/02 |