Posted on 03/28/2025 5:29:56 PM PDT by Libloather
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the top Republican in the Senate's government efficiency (DOGE) caucus, is urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to conduct another audit of its current and former employees and contractors, who, as of May 2023, owed nearly $46 million in delinquent taxes.
Just under 6,000 IRS employees and contractors were audited to have not paid their taxes as of May 2023, with only about a third on payment plans, according to a Treasury inspector general report last year. Ernst requested the report at the time and sent a letter to the Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week urging him to "ensure that federal employees comply with the tax law in order to maintain the public’s confidence."
"In the era of DOGE, I hope the IRS can get its own house in order, before going after private citizens," Ernst said.
She also criticized the IRS for rehiring roughly 400 individuals who had previously been dismissed for performance issues, such as misconduct or failure to comply with tax obligations.
The IRS also "rehired 300 former employees who had been let go for issues like criminal misconduct, sexual misconduct, inability to perform duties, fighting and assault, and unauthorized access to tax return information," Ernst said.
Another March 2023 report from the Treasury inspector general revealed that more than 42,000 civilian federal employees failed to file their tax returns on time for several fiscal years, between Oct. 1, 2015, and Sept. 30, 2020.
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Has Al paid his taxes, yet?
I want to see in my lifetime the IRS abolished once and for all
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Taxation without representation is bad.
Taxation WITH representation ain’t so hot either...........
Good grief! They want to know who to fire, just fire these people! Better than arbitrarily letting go large groups of people from these agencies.
Get rid of the bad; retain the good. In the end, you’ll have 42,000 less employees, and the remaining employees will be better.
Holy crap! “The IRS rehired 300 former employees who had been let go for issues like criminal misconduct, sexual misconduct, inability to perform duties, fighting and assault, and unauthorized access to tax return information,”
And SIX THOUSAND IRS employees owe an average of $7,700 in back taxes!
How about giving them 90 days to pay up or they are fired. And immediately fire the 300 losers that were rehired.
Y’all know for many years this country’s Federal government ran off tariffs and excise taxes - just fine!
When the 16th amendment was approved it was assumed to be less that 1% of income, too bad they didn’t write that in the amendment. Effing Democrats!
I’d be happy to go back to Tariffs as the sole funding for the Federal government.
Then everybody will have a choice.
"In the era of DOGE, I hope the IRS can get its own house in order, before going after private citizens," Ernst said.
Prayers for Elon and his team - it'd gotta be rough for them dealing with the crazies...
WOW...that was DEEP!
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