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Show Senator Garn IRS "streamlining" is questionable Under the IRS proposals, Garn said, the Salt Lake City District Office would be "streamlined," and significant supervisory super-visory control over critical functions, such as collection and taxpayer services, auditing, and intelligence, would be moved to a "prime district" office in Reno. "There is general recognition that centralizing the bureaucracy often makes for front-end economy and long-term waste," Garn said, pointing to the 1976 consolidation of the IRS' Salt Lake Appellate Ap-pellate Office with its Seattle office. According to a study by the Federal Research Committee of the Utah State Legislature, the IRS claimed that $150,000 a year would be saved by the Seattle-Salt Lake City consolidation. "However, the committee found that the actual 'on-paper' 'on-paper' saving would only be $12,000 annually. an-nually. And these savings have been overwhelmed by the substantial inefficiencies inef-ficiencies which now exist in the operation in Salt Lake City," Garn said. Scoffing at claims of "greater efficiency," ef-ficiency," U.S. Senator Jake Garn Monday Mon-day joined in sponsoring a resolution which would prevent the Internal Revenue Service from downgrading its Salt Lake City office and transferring key services to Reno, Nevada. "This ill-conceived plan would undoubtedly un-doubtedly result in greater inefficiency, negligible cost-savings, and reduced service to Utah taxpayers at a time when people across the country are expressing their disgust with the current tax system," the Utah Republican noted. "I am totally in support of trimming down the bureaucracy and reducing federal spending," Garn stated, "but the IRS proposal just won't accomplish those objectives." Co-sponsoring the resolution were senators from Rhode Island, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, New Hampshire and other states which would be similarly affected by the IRS plan. |