European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 4, 1990 the stars and stripes a pages says tax Washington apr the internal Revenue service is losing its Battle against overdue axes which Are growing faster than tax collections government auditors said wednesday each year the irs Falls farther and farther behind in its efforts to reduce the accounts acc Citable balance a Paul l. Posner associate director of the general accounting office told the Senate governmental affairs committee. Unless the problem is reduced he said it a could have a serious negative Impact on voluntary taxpayer  accounts receivable a it which the irs estimates grew from $30 billion in 1984 to $66 billion last year a represent taxes that have been assessed but not paid such As when a taxpayer files a return but fails to remit what is owed. The irs says 13 million Cou pics individuals and businesses Are involved. However the irs the  and other experts agree that the problem May be exaggerated by As much As 50 percent. Accounts receivable Are the total of unpaid income payroll and other taxes due Over the last six years generally the Legal maximum the irs can go Back to in collecting taxes. Over the last six years Posner said accounts receivable a grew three times faster than collections of delinquent taxes and twice As fast As total net lax  he said he found it especially disturbing that the average age of accounts is getting older meaning the debts arc less Likely in be collected. A this rapid out of control growth in unpaid taxes threatens to overwhelm the irs and is absolutely unacceptable at a Lime when the administration and Congress arc grappling with painful Revenue and spending choices a said sen. John Glenn a Ohio. Chairman of the committee. Accounts receivable Are different from the a lax  a which is the difference in income taxes that Ace collected and what would be collected if individuals and businesses correctly reported their income and deductions. The  is expected to be about $100 billion this year alone. Irs commissioner Fred t. Goldberg or. Acknowledged that accounts receivable Are a worrisome problem but said the Agency is making Progress on improving collect ions. For example he said the irs this year is Colleen ing $472,000 in delinquencies for each staff member in the collections division up from $388,000 two years ago. The division is expected to collect $26.5 billion this year compared with $23.3 billion in 1988. Goldberg said there has been a slow but steady increase in accounts the irs believes will never be collected because of death bankruptcy or inability to locate the debtor. That $27 billion is in addition to the $66 billion. Goldberg said there will be dramatic reductions in accounts receivables Only when the irs s it Niyear old computer system is modern cd when the Agency s budget is stabilized so Hal staffer hiring and training can be improved and when lax Laws Are simplified. President Bush a budget for the irs for next year would allow hiring 1,050 new collection personnel a this represents the growth we can prudently manage and absorb during 1991. No More no less a he said. Goldberg said that in february the irs had nearly 800,000 accounts totalling $1.8 billion that could not be worked because of Lack of personnel. That shortage was a result of a 2-year hiring freeze that was imposed on the irs he said. John pepping an irs collections officer in the Laguna Niguel Calif District said the personnel shortage there is so severe that no account under $50,000 is sent to the Field for collection. He testified on behalf of. The National Treasury employees Union which represents most irs workers. Robert m. Tobias president of the Union urged Congress to boost the irs budget sufficiently to hire 5,000 new collectors Over the next three years. That would boost collections by $6.1 billion Over five years he said. Resigned after lightning kills with woman revealed. Atlanta apr the resignation last month of Atlanta a Rodrian Catholic archbishop was prompted by the discovery of his 2-year relationship with a woman his successor said. Archbishop Eugene a. Marino 56, who was the highest ranking Black roman Catholic resigned july 10 for what he said were health reasons and the need for a spiritual renewal psychological therapy and medical  he had relinquished his duties in May because of severe stress and a near heart attack. But Atlanta television station Waga reported wednesday Hal Marinous resignation followed the churches discovery of a relationship Between the archbishop and a Lay minister Vicki r. Long. Marinous temporary successor Bishop James p. Lyck said the former archbishop gave permission to confirm the relationship after the television stations  the television station nor Lyck said if the relationship was sexual. Lyke told the Atlanta Constitution that Church officials were told in March that Marino was involved with a woman. He defended the decision of the archdiocese to withhold the details of Marinous a v2 Vicki Long a resignation. He said Marino was the Only one who could a Call the  the Rev. Peter Dora Atlanta archdiocese spokesman said Church officials  comment further pending a news conference. Stockbroker gets 40 years in 1987, Long filed a $2,3 million paternity suit against a priest Donat Keo Hanc of Columbus ga., alleging that he fathered her child. The Church is paying child support but denies that Keohane is the father of child. Long declined to comment about the allegations involving Marino. The television station reported it had obtained photographs of Marino and Long attending various functions together and a flight insurance policy for a trip to Mexico taken by Marino Long was listed As the archbishop s beneficiary on the policy. Church officials refused to say where Marino was. Marino was ordained in 1962 and consecrated As a Bishop in 1974. He was named archbishop of Atlanta in May 1988, the nations first Black archbishop. He came to Atlanta from Washington where he was auxiliary Bishop to Cardinal James Hickey. The Pope appointed Lyke auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland to he administrator of the archdiocese of Atlanta which covers 69 counties in Northern Georgia with a Catholic population of More than 150,000, until a new archbishop is appointed. -1 if of a it la h a. Mom daughter while fishing West Balm Beach Fla. A a a Mother and daughter were killed and another child was hurled into the water when lightning apparently struck a Pond and travelled up their a fishing lines authorities said. The surviving child the woman s ii year old Niece was found wandering unharmed along a Street. A the child does no to remember anything except crawling out of the water a said Larry Easton a Balm Beach county sheriffs detective wer name was not released. Barbara Buchanan 31, of West Balm Beach and her daughter Michelle were found dead wednesday night he said. There were no Burn Marks on the victims bodies leading deputies to believe lightning struck the water travelled to Shore and electrocuted them said sheriffs it. Marvin Lewis a heavy thunderstorm struck the area wednesday evening. Deputies said the victims May have sought Refuge under Pine Trees by the Pond. Gone fishing line still dangled in the water when firefighters arrived. New London Conn. A a a stockbroker who killed a client he had defrauded and then fabricated dues to throw off police has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Evidence showed that Frank a. Van Dever 36, fatally shot his client Ronald w. Hiiri in his Stonington Conn., Home in 198s, then created phony dues suggesting the killing was connected to drugs and sex. Vandever who pleaded guilty May 25, murdered Hiiri to prevent him from reporting that Vandever had embezzled Money from him the prosecution said. Four Days before the slaying Vandever was fired from a new Haven brokerage firm after company officials discovered he had taken $43,000 from a woman s account and deposited it in his own Sav Mas account prosecutors said. Vandever had promised to make restitution and assured company officials he had not embezzled Money from any other clients. He decided to kill Hiiri because he was worried that Hiiri would report that he too was missing Money the prosecutors showed. After shooting Hiiri first in the Back and then in the heart Vandever left newspapers and Hooks around Hurt s House to make police believe he was a transvestite or homosexual. I Iris Wallet later showed up m an area of Bridgeport known for drugs. Despite Vandever s efforts he was immediately a suspect. Hurt s family knew he was to meet with his stockbroker the Day he was killed and Vandever was videotaped in a suspicious jeweler wide trying to buy a ring with hunks credit  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 4, 1950 a the United slates challenged the soviet Union in Tjie United nations to produce without delay any proposal Hal would Quot genuinely promote peace and Security a in Korea. 30 years ago today. Aug. 4, 1960�? pravda charged that . Secretary general Dag j fam Mai is Jold was acting in the Congo As Quot a pro american  it said the authority Ltd the United nations Quot was being trampled in the  a a 20 years ago today. 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