IRS watchdog: Only 39 percent of IRS workers who cheated on their taxes had to leave the agency

The government’s watchdog on the IRS said Wednesday that almost 1,600 IRS employees were found to be “willfully noncompliant” when it comes to paying their taxes over the ten-year period ending in 2013.

And while the law says the IRS must fire anyone who willfully violates federal tax law, only 39 percent of those people were fired. The rest of the cases — representing 960 employees — were “mitigated to lesser penalties such as suspensions, reprimands, or counseling.”

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