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Employees to take home like this tote bag with a special logo made just for the conference. this bag was made in china, by the way. so was this leather folio. they also got notebooks like this, even bottle openers. all of these gifts and trinkets added up to 64,000 taxpayer dollars. but what may be just as outrageous as wasting this money is the fact that the irs did not appear to follow the very rules it requires each and every taxpayer to follow. >> attempting to modulate the frequency now. >> sorry about the uniforms, captain. the dry cleaner gave me the wrong order. >> reporter: for exampl...

It requires each and every taxpayer to follow. >> attempting to modulate the frequency now. >> sorry about the uniforms, captain. the dry cleaner gave me the wrong order. >> reporter: for example, this "star trek" spoof. the inspector general said this and other videos made for the conference cost $50,187. but the i.g. says no one knows if that cost is accurate because the irs, the agency that requires taxpayers to keep receipts, did not save its own documents to show what it spent. the new acting irs commissioner, danny werfel, calls this wasteful spending inappropriate and stresses they have...

So was this leather folio. they also got notebooks like this, even bottle openers. all of these gifts and trinkets added up to 64,000 taxpayer dollars. but what may be just as outrageous as wasting this money is the fact that the irs did not appear to follow the very rules it requires each and every taxpayer to follow. >> attempting to modulate the frequency now. >> sorry about the uniforms, captain. the dry cleaner gave me the wrong order. >> reporter: for example, this "star trek" spoof. the inspector general said this and other videos made for the conference cost $50,187. but the i.g. says ...

Including air fair. speaking workshops. one called political savvy, how not to shoot yourself in the foot. >> if it wasn't real it would be comical. does this have anything, those videos that we've seen from the irs that have been playing, cupid shuffle, star trek spoof, you broke the stories, are these all part of the same conference that they're talking about in the report? are these other conferences that were taking place where they're using funds for this kind of thing? >> reporter: these videos were made for this particular conference. this is another thing that's shocking and infuriatin...