Watchdog To Probe IRS After Hundreds Of Employees Failed To Pay Taxes

Now that’s rich. No pun intended.

They’re laughing at you while you struggle to feed and house your family.

What rational human being would vote for these cannibals?

Related: Americans Spend More on Taxes in 2021 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined

Watchdog To Probe IRS After Hundreds Of Employees Failed To Pay Taxes

By  Luke Rosiak •  DailyWire.com • Sep 14, 2022

The Department of Treasury’s internal watchdog will audit the Internal Revenue Service to ensure that its own agents are paying their taxes.

The audit was initiated at the request of Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) following a Democrat plan for 87,000 new employees at the tax enforcement agency. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has previously found that hundreds of IRS employees may have failed to pay their own taxes, with some offering excuses such as they didn’t know how. Some were even re-hired for a second stint at the agency after being fired for “willful failure to properly file their Federal tax returns.”

“Ironically, hundreds of employees at the IRS itself may have willfully failed to pay their taxes. More than 300 of these were repeat offenders, yet the tax agency did little to discipline the tax offenders on its payroll,” Ernst said Wednesday. “Before Biden’s army of auditors starts harassing innocent taxpayers, let’s first make sure the tax collectors have paid their own taxes.”

Ernst wrote to Inspector General J. Russell George this summer voting that his office found in 2019 that 1,250 IRS employees had not paid their tax bills in full or on time, including hundreds of whom were willfully delinquent or repeat offenders, and that the tax collecting agency had “done little to discipline these tax cheats on its own payroll.”

With Democrats and President Biden ramming through legislation to double the size of the IRS workforce, conservatives and even the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office expects more aggressive audits of middle class taxpayers.

“Innocent, hardworking Americans should not be subjected to unfair and costly IRS audits when the agency is ignoring tax cheats on its own payroll,” Ernst wrote.

The IG responded that at her request, it would audit the department to find out how many employees are not “fully compliant on their Federal tax obligations” and the number of current workers who were brought back after being fired or retiring following performance issues, including failure to fully pay their taxes.

The plan to dramatically expand the Internal Revenue Service was part of Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, whose recent passage Biden celebrated Tuesday. The Biden administration said new auditors would focus on the wealthy and corporations, but Ernst told The Daily Wire she is skeptical.

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