With tax reform on the drawing table and the Tax Department more aggressive in collecting taxes, another news story points to a major open faucet in questionable use of taxpayer money. Reportedly, non-governmental organizations have not fulfilled the law that requires them to send budgetary statements to the Chamber of Accounts once a month for many years now. For its part, the Chamber of Accounts has not revised the use of the taxpayers money in these organizations. Now the government admits that it does not know how most of the NGOs that operate in the DR have handled around RD$2.8 billion paid to them over the past three years. The Chamber of Accounts says that it does not have the mechanisms to control the operations of the supposedly non-profit organizations and can only rely on news stories in the press, according to a report sent to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The report states that of 3,228 non-governmental organizations that will receive RD$1.02 billion in budgetary allocations in the 2005 National Budget, only 25 are up to date in their rendering of accounts to the Chamber of Accounts. These accounted for RD$228.8 million. The report states that only 2% or 71 of the NGOs reported to the Chamber of Accounts, and of these only 25 included how they used the funds, while 46 submitted partial statements.