European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday March 22,1989 irs employee goes Public with charge against Agency Washington a an irs employee who under a cloak of anonymity accused the Agency of not telling people to neglect to subtract withholding when figuring heir taxes vent Public on network Tele vision monday and was promised Protection by sen Albert Gore or. If they try any kind of reprisal they better watch Mil Ciorca d -tcnn., said of internal Revenue service officials. The irs employee. Linin i Johnson an examiner of returns who works in the Agency s service Center in Memphis tcnn., appeared with Gore on Abc s today show. She had planned to appear in Sil him cute and with her voice disguised but she dropped those precautions because i found out that it s Proba Bly known nut there. Who has actually reported it. She said originally told her Story during a private meeting with Gore she repeated it in an interview with the associated press last week but insisted that she not he. Identified at the time became of fear of retaliation. " she is involved in the irs program to detect Tan pay ers a tto fail to report some or All of i hair taxable in come. About i months after tax returns Are filed computers match returns with form 1099s, w-2s and other source of income reports and. If some income docs Riol show up on a return examiners such As Johnson Der Cid whether the taxpayer should be sent a letter de manding an explanation. In 1987, while checking 1985 returns. Johnson said she. And colleagues found numerous returns on. Which filers had failed to subtract withheld taxes from taxes owed that meant the taxpayers were overpaying. When site went to supervisors she said they told her trs policy required taxpayers to find their own mistakes. After protests she added her superiors checked with irs Headquarters in Washington and were told to abide by the policy. It was stealing from the Johnson said. She said the disputed policy was changed last year to allow irs employees to notify taxpayers when they fail to subtract taxes that have been withheld from wages or periodic pension payments. But he old policy still stands for taxpayers who neglect to subtract taxes with held from Lump sum pension payments. The irs has refused to comment directly on John son s assertions saying it is reviewing its employer manual and policies. However in an appearance before the House ways and Means oversight subcommittee last a Cek acting irs commissioner Michael Murphy said it is Possi ble shul taxpayers did not get the refund they were entitled even after changes were made last december Mur Phy said i Sillani not completely satisfied Wilh that program. / l a. Smiel Insp lord Fram left. Juri the Tuakoi find Alexander Kop Lilin at a us. A Daley uitime. Profess Greef Rule forbidding soviet visits to Homes in . Sau Lake City Utah a sin let ensuring adherence to a 1987 no Calcai arms reduction treaty Are in demand at Public gatherings and some people want them to be allowed to freely social a. When the fint group of sonnets arrived last july some were permitted to attend barbecues at private Homes mid to Imury Holt pret knt of women concerned about nuclear War. Since then,1 the rules that govern soviet and . Inspectors Hae been changed forbidding mus to Prate Home. Mary Wilson a spokeswoman for the on site Init Canon Agency that Nonilon the soviets movements declined w discuss the new policy or we it was implemented but said we unit was a Paramount con com. Soviets Niay not travel without an american Csc on or ii More t Han 31 mks from i he Plant they Are watching the same conditions apply to . Inspectors in the soviet City of vol kinks. Holt is one of Sciera people who believe the Auti Suziah my Rule is an Opportunity there s a difference Between sitting Down Wilh a cup of Coffee As opposed to Public speeches a world of difference she said. The eight Man soviet squads work 24-hour shifts at a checkpoint by an Entrance to the Hercules Aero space s Bacchus works Complex in Western Salt Lake Valley under the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty inspectors for the next 13 Sears must ensure that no penning ii missile motors banned under the Accord leave the building. Inspector work one Day then have two Days off. The inspectors have been tireless in accepting invitations to Public forums. They say they Don t chafe under the rigid rules governing their excursions but inc same can i be said or some of their hosts. Edwin Fimi age University of Utah Law professor and anti nuclear activism and Moll Amelr Yingto per Suade the inspection Agency to allow the inspectors to accept dinner invitations at private Homes. Stateside debt forces orchestra in Denver to end season Denver a the Denver symphony or Chestra s 1989 Spring season will end Early with saturday s concert because of a nearly 11 million shortfall orchestra officials announced monday. Symphony officials said they were cancelling eight concerts remaining in the 1989.spring sea son hut said they hoped to reorganize the or Chestra in Lime for the 1989-199 1 season. They plan cd to Ohava proposal in hand by a i. I. We looked at every possible alternative be fore we were forced id make this John Low chairman of the symphony Board said at a news flies into Mountain Pilot presumed dead Seattle a a Pilot who failed to make a turn Fli w his aircraft into a Sno Fidd at the 12,500-fool level of mount Rainier authorities said. He was presumed dead in the crash. The Pilot William e. Saul. 54 of Wena chec requested the Lurn while flying on instruments and acknowledged thai clearance was Given said Mike o Connor regional duty officer with the Federal aviation administration. However o Connor said flight control officials noted that Saul s Cessna 210 did not turn As it approached the Mountain s5 Miles South East of Seattle. Because of hazardous conditions on the Mountain. National Park service officials decided recovery of the Pilot s body would have to wait said by Hunt Gas spokesman for mount. Rainier National Park. Saul had taken off from Seattle s hoeing Field and was on his Way to Wenatchee about 100 Miles cast of Seattle. Sports Utility vehicle plan confirmed by Ford Detroit i Ford motor co. Eon firmed monday it is planning a Small sports Litel Ity vehicle for he Early 1990s that May be built in North America under a partnership with one of its global affiliates. The program code named lw52, would pro vide the nation s no. 2 car maker with a vehicle to compete against models like Chevrolet s go tracker built by japanese car maker Suzuki mild in the United Stales As the Suzuki Side kick. Both Are priced Between and 513,000. A port spokesman confirmed such .1 program docs exist accused robber seized after Dye pack explodes Columbia . A Bank robber try ing to Deposit his loot in a Branch of the same Hank was arrested when a Dye pack put in Wilh the Money exploded police said. Auto Mechanic Lorenzo Delaney robbed the South Carolina National Bank on monday of 58,000 and was at a Crosstown Branch when a guard saw the pack goofy police said. It s really not funny a stroke of Good Luck maybe on our part police capt. . Swisher said was charged in the heist and in two other Bank robberies one at the iame Bank. Held up on monday. Mistrial declared in Case of 6 sex narcotics officers i i Udolphia a a Federal judge monday declared a mistrial in the racketeering trial of six former narcotics officers accused of shaking Down drug dealers As members of an elite police team known As the five squad. . District judge John Hunnum made the ruling after the jury which deliberated More than 30 hours Over Lis Days reported it was -hopelehly.deaijiocked. Charges against the sex officers included conspiracy racketeering and filing false tax returns. Prosecutors contended that inc defendants stole drugs and More than s400,000 seized from drug dealers. Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of government testimony from 36 drug dealers and two former members of the five squad which Dis banded in 1985,
