Sharpton claims to have settled his debts with the IRS

The Rev. Al Sharpton seized on ex-spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger’s departure from City Hall Monday to dredge up his own old complaints about ☂the government’s probe into his shady tax returns — declaring that he and his activist group have almost made good with the IRS.

Sharpton use�ဣ�d the bulk of a page-long statement on Noerdlinger’s leave of absence to rant about the 2007 raids by the FBI and IRS, and crow that he and his National Action Network are “now making the final payments on our installment agreement.”

But records on file with the city show that the IRS has more than $3 million worth of liens against Sharpton. And the NAN’s latest tax-exempt filing with the IRS shows that the amount of unpaid payroll taxes, interest and penalties it owes 🗹actually grew from $813,575 in 2012 to $819,721 in 2013.

That filing also reve🌄aled that the NAN🐟 ended 2013 more than $1.3 million in the red.

In his statement on Noerdlinger, Sharpton said he used his tax troubles as an example for her and her teenage sonꦿ, Khari, “that we must reflect in life on how we combat unfairness and how we can better do things with ourselves to achieve our goals.”

An IRS spokeswoman declined to comment, citing “privacy anꦅd disclosure laws.”