Apparently, at the IRS, if you're a fired or reprimanded former employee, you can always go home again. Treasury's inspector general for tax administration issued a report that shows hundreds of former IRS employees with conduct issues have been rehired in recent years. Those conduct issues include, "purposefully not filing their taxes, wrongly authorizing taxpayer information and lying on official forms" Even former employees with drug issues and a prison record have been rehired. The Hill: “Based on the types of prior performance and conduct issues we identified, rehiring certain employees presents increased risk to the IRS and taxpayers,” J. Russell George, the tax administration inspector general, said in a statement. The inspector general's report also raised the ire of congressional Republicans, who already have a wide range of issues with the IRS.  GOP lawmakers this week criticized John Koskinen, the IRS commissioner,...(Read Full Post)