IRS Employees Owe $50 Million In Back Taxes, Audit Finds

[mountaineer]

@lukerosiak
3,800 IRS employees haven't paid their own taxes, a new audit found. Despite the law saying that employees who willfully don't pay their taxes should be fired, only 20 have been. 
“Surely the irony and hypocrisy can’t be missed here," @SenJoniErnst said
1:19 PM · Jul 29, 2024

IRS Employees Owe $50 Million In Back Taxes, Audit Finds
Federal employees collectively owe $1.5 billion in taxes
By  Luke Rosiak
Jul 29, 2024  DailyWire.com

Internal Revenue Service employees and contractors owe a collective $50 million in back taxes, a new audit by the Treasury Department’s inspector general found.

Of the more than 3,800 IRS employees who owe back taxes, 2,000 have not even established a payment plan. More than 50 of these delinquent employees have remained employed by the IRS for five years or more. All told, nearly 150,000 federal employees failed to pay their taxes, owing a combined $1.5 billion.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who requested the audit, says IRS employees’ failure to pay taxes is particularly galling, considering the $80 billion the Inflation Reduction Act allotted to expand the agency’s audit capacity.

“Surely the irony and hypocrisy can’t be missed here: taxpayers are being forced to pay billions more to the IRS to audit America while the agency won’t even collect the tens of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes owed by its employees,” Ernst said. ...

[Smokin Joe]

The sad part is that if they all ponied up those back taxes, it would not keep the federal government going for five minutes.

~$6.2 trillion in FY 2023=$11,796,042 per minute, on average.

[Bigun]

The sad part is that if they all ponied up those back taxes, it would not keep the federal government going for five minutes.

~$6.2 trillion in FY 2023=$11,796,042 per minute, on average.

The REALLY sad part is that we still have the Marxist income tax!

"the oppression arising from taxation, is not from the amount but, from the mode -- a thorough acquaintance with the condition of the people, is necessary to a just distribution of taxes. The whole wisdom of the science of Government, with respect to taxation, consists in selecting the mode of collection which will best accommodate to the convenience of the people."

Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention June 12, 1788

[Smokin Joe]

The REALLY sad part is that we still have the Marxist income tax!

"the oppression arising from taxation, is not from the amount but, from the mode -- a thorough acquaintance with the condition of the people, is necessary to a just distribution of taxes. The whole wisdom of the science of Government, with respect to taxation, consists in selecting the mode of collection which will best accommodate to the convenience of the people."

Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention June 12, 1788

Well, 1913 was a bad year, all around. (Federal Reserve Act, too).