• The Department of the Treasury inspector general has announced that it will conduct an audit of IRS employees to identify tax cheats working directly for the tax collection agency.
• Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russel George will conduct the audit at the request of Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst,.
• “Before Biden’s army of auditors starts harassing innocent taxpayers, let’s first make sure the tax collectors have paid their own taxes,” Ernst said of the effort.

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