According to APM’s Marketplace, more than 1,000 IRS workers who failed to pay their taxes still received performance bonuses.
Andrew Biggs with the American Enterprise Institute generally favors performance bonuses for federal employees. But, Biggs says, “it is difficult to have employees working for the IRS who didn’t in fact pay their own taxes. That undermines the credibility of the agency as a whole.”
The IRS is considering a policy change. To listen to the whole story, click here.