Who Gets Rewarded for Stiffing the IRS? IRS Agents!
J.D. Tuccille|Apr. 23, 2014 12:17 pm
If you and I pay the Internal Revenue Service less than it claims it owes us, we can get slammed pretty hard with fines, penalties, and even jail time. The IRS even stages armed raids in its search for a few more sheckels to feed the government’s appetite. We even can getdinged $5,000 for filing “frivolous” returns that just annoy the tax collectors.
But there is one class of people that can misbehave and even stiff the IRS, and receive rewards in return. Who has that sweet deal? IRS employees.
According to a press release from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration:
between October 1, 2010 and December 31, 2012, more than 2,800 employees with recent substantiated conduct issues resulting in disciplinary action received more than $2.8 million in monetary awards and more than 27,000 hours in time-off awards. Among these, more than 1,100 IRS employees with substantiated Federal tax compliance problems received more than $1 million in cash awards and more than 10,000 hours in time-off awards.
Whoops!
https://reason.com/blog/2014/04/23/who-gets-rewarded-for-stiffing-the-irs-i
