Tax Administration: Information on IRS Executive Relocations and Travel
Matters (Letter Report, 06/01/94, GAO/GGD-94-140).

In the three-year period ending September 1992, Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) executives were relocated 122 times at a cost of $60,000 for each
relocation. IRS procedures require consideration of lower cost
alternatives for long-term travel associated with temporary duty
assignments exceeding two months. GAO reviewed long-term travel
assignments made at four IRS offices during fiscal year 1992. In these
cases, officials who authorized the travel said that less costly
alternatives were considered. GAO's sample of 67 meetings and
conferences held at nongovernmental facilities during fiscal year 1992
showed that site selections generally met federal requirements. In 1993,
IRS reviewed its procedures on selection of meeting and conference sites
to restrict the use of nongovernmental facilities for these activities.
The revisions responded to the Treasury Department Inspector General's
conclusion that IRS was not adequately managing the selection of
nongovernmental facilities for such activities. IRS has encouraged the
use of modern technology to cut travel costs and estimated that IRS
saved nearly $3 million in travel expenses from January to July 1993 by
using videoconferencing. IRS officials said that IRS continues to assess
its strategies to take advantage of emerging telecommunications
technology.

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 REPORTNUM:  GGD-94-140
     TITLE:  Tax Administration: Information on IRS Executive 
             Relocations and Travel Matters
      DATE:  06/01/94
   SUBJECT:  Travel allowances
             Travel costs
             Relocation allowances
             Cost control
             Employee transfers
             Personnel management
             Convention facilities
             Conference expense claims
             Management information systems

             
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