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700 IRS contract workers owe $5.4m in back taxes

By Associated Press, Stephen Ohlemacher
Published October 23, 2013 4:00am ET
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700 IRS contract workers owe $5.4m in back taxes
A recent report by the IRS inspector general says the agency has given out somewhere between $110 billion and $132 billion in improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments in the last decade. In that time period, between 21and 30 percent of tax credit payments went to people who didn't qualify for them. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta) | Manuel Balce Ceneta

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 700 employees of Internal Revenue Service contractors owe $5.4 million in back taxes, said a report Wednesday by the agency’s inspector general.

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