>> and you feel like you followed the irs? >> absolutely. we have a tax lawyer. that's a reason why campaigns are so expensive. we have a cpa who does our filing, we have tax lawyers that are on call to make sure that we follow the letter of law. >> reporter: tax issues by other ways and means members run the gamut. paul ryan had to pay a fine for understating his income to the mundane indiana republican todd young paid $1500 after a mortgage escrow mix-up to the outrageous irs problems causing $2.5 million for buchanan. and perhaps the largest was charlie rangel. he failed to pay taxes on his rental income from his swank villa in the dominican republic.