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Mission Economic development Annual Report Areas identified 2011 Area 42: Revising the essential air service program could improve efficiency. 2011 Area 43: Improved design and management of the universal service fund as it expands to support broadband could help avoid cost increases for consumers. 2011 Area 44: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should provide Congress with projectlevel information on unobligated balances. 2012 Area 39: Auto Recovery Office: Unless the Secretary of Labor can demonstrate how the Auto Recovery Office has uniquely assisted auto communities, Congress may wish to consider prohibiting the Department of Labor from spending any of its appropriations on the Auto Recovery Office and instead require that the department direct the funds to other federal programs that provide funding directly to affected communities. Energy 2011 Area 45: Improved management of federal oil and gas resources could result in approximately $2 billion in revenues over 10 years. General government 2012 Area 40: Excess Uranium Inventories: Marketing the Department of Energy’s excess uranium could provide substantial revenue for the government. 2013 Area 21: Department of Energy’s Isotope Program: Assessing the value of isotopes to customers, and other factors such as prices of alternatives, may show that the Department of Energy could increase prices for isotopes that it sells to commercial customers to create cost savings by generating additional revenue. 2011 Area 46: Efforts to address government-wide improper payments could result in significant costs savings. 2011 Area 47: Promoting competition for the over $500 billion in federal contracts could potentially save billions of dollars over time. 2011 Area 48: Applying strategic sourcing best practices throughout the federal procurement system could saves billions of dollars annually. 2011 Area 49: Adherence to guidance on award fee contracts could improve agencies’ use of award fees to produce savings. 2011 Area 50: Agencies aimed to save at least $3 billion by continued disposal of unneeded federal real property. 2011 Area 51: Improved cost analyses used for making federal facility ownership and leasing decisions could save millions of dollars. 2011 Area 52: The Office of Management and Budget’s IT Dashboard reportedly has already resulted in savings and can further help identify opportunities to invest more efficiently in information technology. 2011 Area 53: Increasing electronic filing of individual income tax returns could reduce IRS’s processing costs and increase revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars. 2011 Area 54: Using return on investment information to better target IRS enforcement could reduce the tax gap; for example, a 1 percent reduction would increase tax revenues by $3.8 billion. 2011 Area 55: Better management of tax debt collection may resolve cases faster with lower IRS costs and increase debt collected. 2011 Area 56: Broadening IRS’s authority to correct simple tax return errors could facilitate correct tax payments and help IRS avoid costly, burdensome audits. 2011 Area 57: Enhancing mortgage interest information reporting could improve tax compliance. 2011 Area 58: More information on the types and uses of canceled debt could help IRS limit revenue losses of forgiven mortgage debt. Overall assessment ◐ ◐ ● ○ ◐ ○ a ◐ ◐ ◐ ● Consolidated or other ○ ● ◐ ◐ ◐ ○ ○ ◐ Page 247 GAO-13-279SP Selected Tables
Mission Annual Report Areas identified 2011 Area 59: Better information and outreach could help increase revenues by tens or hundreds of millions of dollars annually by addressing overstated real estate tax deductions. 2011 Area 60: Revisions to content and use of Form 1098-T could help IRS enforce higher education requirements and increase revenues. 2011 Area 61: Many options could improve the tax compliance of sole proprietors and begin to reduce their $68 billion portion of the tax gap. 2011 Area 62: IRS could find additional businesses not filing tax returns by using thirdparty data, which show such businesses have billions of dollars in sales. 2011 Area 63: Congress and IRS can help S corporations and their shareholders be more tax compliant, potentially increasing tax revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars each year. 2011 Area 64: IRS needs an agencywide approach for addressing tax evasion among the at least 1 million networks of businesses and related entities. 2011 Area 65: Opportunities exist to improve the targeting of the $6 billion research tax credit and reduce forgone revenue. 2011 Area 66: Converting the new markets tax credit to a grant program may increase program efficiency and significantly reduce the $3.8 billion 5 years revenue cost of the program. 2011 Area 67: Limiting the tax-exempt status of certain governmental bonds could yield revenue. 2011 Area 68: Adjusting civil tax penalties for inflation potentially could increase revenues by tens of millions of dollars per year, not counting any revenues that may result from maintaining the penalties’ deterrent effect. 2011 Area 69: IRS may be able to systematically identify nonresident aliens reporting unallowed tax deductions or credits. 2011 Area 70: Tracking undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts could facilitate the reallocation of scarce resources or the return of funding to the Treasury. 2012 Area 41: General Services Administration Schedules Contracts Fee Rates: Reevaluating fee rates on the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedules contracts could result in significant cost savings government-wide. 2012 Area 42: U.S. Currency: Legislation replacing the $1 note with a $1 coin would provide a significant financial benefit to the government over time. 2012 Area 43: Federal User Fees: Regularly reviewing federal user fees and charges can help the Congress and federal agencies identify opportunities to address inconsistent federal funding approaches and enhance user financing, thereby reducing reliance on general fund appropriations. 2012 Area 44: Internal Revenue Service Enforcement Efforts: Enhancing the Internal Revenue Service’s enforcement and service capabilities can help reduce the gap between taxes owed and paid by collecting billions in tax revenue and facilitating voluntary compliance. 2013 Area 21: Additional Opportunities to Improve Internal Revenue Service Enforcement of Tax Laws: The Internal Revenue Service can realize cost savings and increase revenue collections by billions of dollars by, among other things, using more rigorous analyses to better allocate enforcement and other resources. 2013 Area 23: Agencies’ Use of Strategic Sourcing: Selected agencies could better leverage their buying power and achieve additional savings by directing more procurement spending to existing strategically sourced contracts and further expanding strategic sourcing practices to their highest spending procurement categories—savings of one percent from selected agencies’ procurement spending alone would equate to over $4 billion. Overall assessment ◐ ◐ ◐ ◐ ◐ ◐ ○ ○ ○ ◐ ● ● ● ○ ○ ◐ a a Page 248 GAO-13-279SP Selected Tables
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