Digby: Sharkskin Suits

While the government is digging around in your bank accounts for god knows what reasons, they have also decided that it's better to let corporations off easy when it's determined that they owe taxes.

The country is going broke and they are doing this:

Top officials at the Internal Revenue Service are pushing agents to prematurely close audits of big companies with agreements to have them pay only a fraction of the additional taxes that could be collected, according to dozens of I.R.S. employees who say that the policy is costing the government billions of dollars a year.