Remember the alleged tax-dodging IRS workers? House and Senate employees — including lawmakers — make them look like model citizens.
It turns out that IRS employees have a much better record paying their taxes than lawmakers and their staff in both the House and Senate — almost five and three times better, to be exact, according to data released by the IRS on Thursday.
About 4.9 percent of all House employees, including lawmakers, have an unpaid tax liability. Those 486 employees owe Uncle Sam about $5.8 million.
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Across the Rotunda, Senate staff and legislators have a 3.2 percent delinquency rate, with 228 employees owing $2.7 million in taxes.
The IRS, which has a 0.9 percent tax delinquency rate, has come under fire in recent weeks when an agency watchdog found that it had paid $1 million worth of performance awards to about 1,100 IRS employees with tax-compliance problems.
Republicans pounced on the findings.
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