State pays out $5.4 million following IRS audit

The taxman cometh for everyone. Even the state. For the first time in memory — perhaps ever — the Internal Revenue Service audited Maryland government. And it turns out Maryland taxpayers owe Uncle Sam at least $5.4 million for tax year 2020. “This is a new one,” Comptroller Brooke Lierman said at Wednesday’s Board of Public Works meeting where the audit was discussed. “It might be the first time the state has ever been audited. We looked back 30 years and it had not happened before,” she said.