Republican senators have been up in arms over reports issued over the past 18 months indicating the extent to which federal employees are not paying their federal taxes.
In a July letter, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa noted that a recent audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that 149,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.
It gets worse.
“Tens of thousands are repeat tax cheats, failing to file tax returns year after year, and the number is steadily increasing,” she wrote.
In the letter, she challenged Internal Revenue Service Commission Daniel Werfel to make “thousands of tax-evading tax collectors at the IRS.”
Ernst noted that an audit found more than 5,800 employees of the IRS and its contractors owe almost $50 million in overdue taxes.
Report claims 150,000 employees across various federal agencies owe $1.5 billion in overdue taxes. pic.twitter.com/lC3NkCutVE
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“There is absolutely nothing fair about forcing hardworking Americans to pay the salaries of tax-evading tax collectors while the IRS targets lower-income5 and middle-class Americans with nearly two-thirds of the new audits,” she wrote.
“Surely the irony and hypocrisy can’t be missed