Article originally appeared on amgreatness.com.
A recent audit by the United States Treasury Department’s inspector general (IG) found that multiple employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collectively owe around $50 million in back taxes.
According to the Daily Wire, the amount is owed by a total of over 3,800 individual employees, 2,000 of which have not yet established payment plans. At least 50 of these employees have worked for the IRS for five years or more.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration conducted the audit by reviewing 1,068 different cases where the IRS had taken disciplinary action against employees for tax-related offenses. The IG found that in most cases, the agency would hardly punish its own employees.
“76 employees were suspended. Most of these cases involved willful … cases resulting in the employee being suspended for less than 14 days,” the IG report reveals.
Out of 70 different cases where an IRS …
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