$45 Billion in Tax Dollars Goes Missing in Afghanistan

$45 Billion in Tax Dollars Goes Missing in Afghanistan
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"The auditors said DOD handed over data only for $21 billion of the total $66 billion it spent rebuilding the war-torn country. But unlike most cases of missing money in Afghanistan (of which there are plenty), the auditors don’t blame this on corruption or waste—but rather on accounting issues."

Amazingly the same government that write accounting laws, don;t seem to be able to follow them. My sweetheart says the private sector can't get away with this and someone would go to jail, because there is no way to calculate the tax implications of the lost money. Obviously they don't follow standard GAP or (general accounting procedures).
She has a little experience in accounting being a CPA, a CFO and a masters in business. She is the smart one in the house.

"A new report from the office of John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), revealed that there’s virtually no way to know what happened to a large chunk of money the Defense Department spent in Afghanistan before 2010."

Maybe we should let the private sector of auditors go in and take a look around, I think the wife would be up for that. She is a very good forensic accountant.

"Sopko has intensified his scrutiny of the U.S.’s rebuilding mission in Afghanistan—raising questions about whether we’re any closer to achieving a stable and sustainable country hundreds of billions of dollar (and tens of thousands of lives) later. Overall, the U.S. has poured more than $104 billion into Afghanistan since 2002."

I guess this just proves the point in that both the Times and the Washington Post report the Afgan war has cost between 4 to 6 trillion dollars.
The difference is a lot of black budget money.