Report Shows Corrupt IRS Employees Typically Keep Their Jobs. Some Even Get Promoted.

Editor’s note: Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the Senate this weekend, would allow the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents.

There aren’t many gyms that employ obese personal trainers, or investment firms that retain bankrupt financial advisers. If they did, their business would certainly suffer.

But that’s precisely what the Internal Revenue Service did, according to a recent Treasury investigation. Between 2004 and 2013, the agency continued to employ, and even promote, nearly 1,000 employees who willfully lied on or failed to pay their own personal taxes.

Unfortunately, there’s no marketplace for tax collection and enforcement, so taxpayers can’t simply take their business elsewhere.

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