Iowa Senator Says IRS Should Clean Up Its Own Organization Before Hiring Agents

(Washington, DC)  —  US Senator Joni Ernst says the Internal Revenue Service should clean up its own organization before hiring thousands of agents for audits.  The Iowa Republican says the IRS should rethink its plans.  Ernst says hundreds of IRS employees may have willfully failed to pay their own tax bills.  She says more than 300 were repeat offenders yet the federal agency did little to discipline the tax evaders on its own payroll.  Ernst says the Inspector General has agreed to her request for an audit of the IRS to make sure that the tax collectors themselves are paying the taxes they owe.