More than 800 Internal Revenue Service workers owe millions of dollars in back taxes even after a report earlier this year exposed the situation, the Washington Examiner reported Monday.
NEWSMAX -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who has highlighted the issue, hopes that such public waste will be dealt with by billionaire Elon Musk, who has been appointed by President-elect Donald Trump along with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head a new department based on government efficiency.
A July report requested by Ernst revealed that more than 5,800 IRS and contractor employees owed almost $50 million in overdue taxes, with the agency firing just 20 of the employees who failed to pay taxes.
That report led Ernst to introduce the Audit the IRS Act, which would mandate regular tax audits of agency employees and forbid the IRS from hiring or continuing to employ tax evaders, the Washington Examiner reported.
