Hell, for $25,000 I'd let anyone take a look at my medical records!
On a serious note, it's been a bad week for the IRS, but that agency is seriously struggling right now with a slashed budget and increased responsibilities. As David Cay Johnston, puts it "The IRS is drowning." http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/the_other_irs_scand...
I am struggling to find budget statistics that go back to earlier than 2010, but since that time the budget has been flat at $11.8 billion (1.5 billion less than Obama requested), and thanks to the sequester they are experiencing a $600 million cut this year. At the same time, they have been required to take on new duties and are struggling to maintain the employment they need. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/25/us-usa-tax-irs-hea... and http://www.irs.gov/pub/newsroom/budget-in-brief-fy2013.pdf
What's absurd is that estimates of ROI on IRS funding range from 7:1 to 10:1. So it's really not about the budget. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to speculate on what's really behind the underfunding of the IRS.
On a serious note, it's been a bad week for the IRS, but that agency is seriously struggling right now with a slashed budget and increased responsibilities. As David Cay Johnston, puts it "The IRS is drowning." http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/the_other_irs_scand...