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GOP senator proposes bill to claw back $46M owed in taxes by IRS workers

April 14, 2025
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GOP senator proposes bill to claw back $46M owed in taxes by IRS workers
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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is gearing up for Tax Day with new legislation requiring the IRS to police itself and ensure that all of its workers are fully caught up on their debts to Uncle Sam.

Ernst (R-Iowa) has introduced the Audit the IRS Act, which requires the tax-collecting agency to probe its workers annually and fire every agent who doesn’t pay their tax bills.

The measure comes in response to a July 2024 watchdog report’s findings that current and former workers owed $46 million worth of taxes and that about 5% of IRS employees and contractors weren’t fully caught up on their personal tax obligations.

“I am squashing the 1776-style tax revolt at the IRS and forcing bureaucrats to play by the rules they are enforcing on the American people,” Ernst told The Post about her bill.

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Sen. Joni Ernst wants IRS workers who are behind on their taxes to get fired. AP
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Tuesday is Tax Day, the deadline to pay federal income taxes. Christopher Sadowski

“We must conduct a full accounting of America’s tax agency by auditing the auditors. Every single tax-dodging tax collector needs to be shown the door.”

Four months after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s (TIGTA) July report on IRS workers bilking Uncle Sam, the IRS informed Ernst that it still had 2,044 employees on staff who owed some $12 million in taxes.

Only 20 of the 70 IRS agents who were found to have “willfully” skimped out on their taxes were let go, the tax-collecting agency told the Iowan last November..

Under the Audit the IRS Act, workers with “seriously delinquent tax debt,” meaning individuals with a lien filed in public records against them, can’t continue serving at the agency.

Additionally, the bill would restrict the IRS from hiring workers with outstanding tax obligations.

The IRS has long struggled with unpaid taxes. Back in 2022, for instance, the agency estimated that the gap between total taxes owed and what was paid on time was about $696 billion.

That’s just shy of 40% of the US federal deficit for fiscal year 2024, which clocked in at about $1.8 trillion.

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An estimated 5% of IRS workers did not fully pay up their tax obligations, according to a watchdog report last July. REUTERS

Ernst leads the Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, which helps collaborate with the Trump administration’s eponymous cost-cutting initiative.

Tuesday is Tax Day, when payments on income taxes are due.

Last month, the Hawkeye State senator penned a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urging him to crack down on IRS workers who don’t pay their taxes.

She also implored him to address the IRS’s antiquated internal systems for tax collection and pointed to the bipartisan SAMOSA Act that cleared the House last year as a model. Backers of the SAMOSA Act estimate it could save taxpayers $750 million annually.

About a quarter of IRS software, a third of agency programs, and 10% of its hardware are run on legacy systems, according to a 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office

The post GOP senator proposes bill to claw back $46M owed in taxes by IRS workers appeared first on New York Post.

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