IRS employees were scared stiff after DOGE sounded the alarm on this bad problem
The IRS has tormented Americans for decades with its heavy-handed tactics.
But there’s a secret they’ve been keeping from taxpayers.
And IRS employees were scared stiff after DOGE sounded the alarm on this bad problem.
IRS employees owe nearly $50 million in back taxes
Tax season means that the employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are looking to wring every last nickel out of hardworking Americans.
While the IRS is looking to drop the hammer on taxpayers, thousands of its employees aren’t paying their taxes.
The Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration released a bombshell report in July 2024 about IRS employees who are delinquent on their taxes.
More than 5,800 IRS employees and contractors were behind on their taxes, according to the report.
They owed $46 million in back taxes to the agency they were working for.
Many of these employees have been behind on their taxes for years.
About one-third of these IRS employees are on payment plans, and not all of them are up to date.
The IRS is bullying ordinary Americans while turning a blind eye to its employees skipping out on their tax bills.
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), the head of the Senate DOGE caucus, told the IRS to go after its delinquent employees.
“In the era of DOGE, I hope the IRS can get its own house in order, before going after private citizens,” Ernst said.
She sent a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking him to “ensure that federal employees comply with the tax law in order to maintain the public’s confidence.”
IRS rehired employees who were fired for not paying their taxes
Ernst noted that the IRS rehired 300 former employees who were fired for things like sexual misconduct, assault, fighting on the job, not paying their taxes, and illegally accessing other people’s tax information.
Former President Joe Biden tried to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to pay for his $1 trillion Inflation Reduction Act – a slush fund for Green New Deal policies.
The new IRS agents hired by the Biden administration are on the chopping block under President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
IRS officials weren’t rehiring the best and brightest to meet Biden’s goal.
A March 2023 Inspector General’s report found the problem went well beyond the IRS.
42,000 federal employees hadn’t filed a tax return for multiple years between 2015 and 2020.
The Post Office had most of these non-filers with nearly 10,000.
Ernst has introduced the Audit the IRS Act to prevent the IRS from hiring anyone who has a significant amount of tax debt.
“The IRS is America’s least favorite agency,” Ernst said. “The agency is in desperate need of reform. Ahead of Tax Day, it’s time to conduct a full accounting of the IRS and finally make it make cents for the American people.”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his DOGE team are also giving the IRS an audit.
The IRS’s job is to collect taxes and it can’t get its own employees to pay up.
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