Report: IRS employees disciplined for misconduct still received bonuses

Internal Revenue Service employees disciplined for misusing agency travel cards, failing to pay federal taxes and fraud still received performance bonuses totaling millions of dollars, according to an agency watchdog.

In a recent audit made public Tuesday, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that between Oct. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31 2012, more than 2,800 employees disciplined within the past year for misconduct collected a total of $2.8 million in monetary awards. That included more than $1 million in cash awards for 1,100 IRS employees who had failed to pay federal taxes.

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