Anyone who has followed the declining career of D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi isn’t surprised by the inspector general’s recent report indicating his office failed to collect nearly $7 million in tax penalties from businesses who failed to file electronically. There is a trail of similar failures.

Gandhi reportedly failed to collect as much as $100 million in recordation taxes from certain refinanced commercial properties; he claimed there was some misinterpretation of the law. The council ultimately made clear in the fiscal year 2013 budget it expects the CFO to levy and collect that tax.