IRS Agents Who Didn’t Pay Taxes Receive Bonuses With Your Tax Dollars

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 The Internal Revenue Service handed out $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with disciplinary issues — including more than $1 million to employees who didn’t pay their federal taxes, a watchdog report says.

The report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said 1,146 IRS employees received bonuses within a year of substantiated federal tax compliance problems.

The bonuses weren’t just monetary. Employees with tax problems received a total of 10,582 hours of paid time off — valued at about $250,000 — and 69 received permanent raises through a step increase, the report said. The report looked at bonuses in 2011 and 2012.

So the IRS agent coming to audit your tax returns may be a tax cheat himself – and still received a bonus with your tax dollars. Example #856,215 of how those in the political class are treated differently than us lowly citizens.