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Title: Federal Workers Owe Billions in Unpaid Taxes
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URL Source: http://www.wtop.com/?nid=428&sid=1034585
Published: Sep 21, 2007
Author: Mark Segraves, WTOP Radio
Post Date: 2007-09-21 11:40:46 by innieway
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Views: 111
Comments: 11
WASHINGTON - As the 2006 tax season approaches, the federal government is still trying to recover nearly $3 billion from its own employees who failed to file income tax returns for 2005. More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act. (See Excel spreadsheets in the Related Links below.) The total balance owed is $2,799,950,165. The documents show that every federal agency has employees who failed to comply with federal tax laws. Seventy-one employees in the Executive Office of the President, which includes the White House, owe $664,527 in taxes for 2005. About 20 of those employees have entered into an IRS payment plan, bringing the EOP balance down to $455,881owed by 50 employees. The White House did not respond to repeated requests for comment. In fact, about one third of the delinquent employees, or 149,500, entered into a payment plan, but the total owed is still more than $2 billion. At the IRS, employees can be fired for failure to pay federal income taxes. But an IRS spokesperson tells WTOP it's no easier to collect from federal employees than it is to collect from the general public. In the past, IRS officials have been quick to compare the federal workers' rate of compliance with the general public's. But this year, the IRS is not able to track the compliance rate for the general public. The percentage of federal employees who still owe back taxes for the 2005 year is 3.3 percent of the workforce including retirees. The federal agency with the highest number of delinquent taxpayers is the United States Postal Service, where 56,652 employees owe more than $320 million. So far, about 22,000 of those employees have agreed to a payment plan. A spokesperson for the Postal Service says the agency hopes all of its employees follow the law, but will leave enforcement to the IRS. The agency with the best compliance rate is the Department of Treasury, which includes the IRS. Fewer than 2 percent of Treasury employees failed to pay their taxes. About 3,000 Treasury employees owed $13,489,683 -- 1,437 of those feds also have made payment plans. The IRS tracks the compliance rate of federal employees each year in an effort to increase compliance. Agency directors are made aware of their department's compliance rate and then memos are sent to staff encouraging them to file their taxes.
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#1. To: innieway (#0)
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
*PING* If ANYONE is "required" to "pay the tax", it would be these federal workers!!! Am I hearing a call of "Houston, we have a problem!???
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. Be rid of those slugs, sell the Postal Service to UPS and FEDEX.
Peanuts. HAHAHAHA These days especially.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
NO KIDDING!!! Last month I mailed my phone bill payment. 2 weeks later I got a "courtesy call" reminding me I needed to pay my bill to avoid disconnection. I explained to them "the payment had been mailed, and in fact they should have had it by now." A week later my phone got cut off. I contacted them (rather furious), and was told they had not received the payment. They agreed to turn the phone back on if I faxed them a copy of the money order, which I did. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Love that attitude! The best way to "win this revolution" won't be by gunfire. They have BIGGER guns. Same principal applies to all of our "major problems". Starve Big Pharma by eating healthy, keeping your immune system peaking - and those "doctor visits" will go away, along with the dependence on their pharmaceuticals. Starve the Federal Reserve by working in barter and PMs...
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. Be rid of those slugs, sell the Postal Service to UPS and FEDEX. Postal workers know that the IRS operates on 90% bluff because they deliver the threats.
No, but the Postal Service IS a govt entity. I never had UPS or FEDEX "lose" something for over a month... No. I'm on my own little landlocked vessel 4000' above sea-level. Entrance by pre-approval only... 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. ANNUAL REPORT TO THE CONGRESS, FEDERAL EQUAL OPPORTUNITY RECRUITMENT PROGRAM, FY 2006
#2. To: All, HOWNDDAWG (#0)
Steven Wright
#3. To: innieway (#0)
The federal agency with the highest number of delinquent taxpayers is the United States Postal Service,
#4. To: ghostdogtxn (#1)
What is that, half a month in Iraq?
Steven Wright
#5. To: innieway (#2)
#6. To: Cynicom (#3)
Be rid of those slugs, sell the Postal Service to UPS and FEDEX.
They finally received and posted the payment 2 weeks ago - some 5 weeks or more since it was mailed!!!
Steven Wright
#7. To: innieway (#6)
#8. To: ghostdogtxn (#5)
but fuck the government.
The BEST way is to starve it. If you don't feed your baby it will die.
Steven Wright
#9. To: Cynicom (#3)
The federal agency with the highest number of delinquent taxpayers is the United States Postal Service,
#10. To: ghostdogtxn (#7)
The phone company isn't the government, there, Innieway.
Unless... are you on a navy vessel?
Steven Wright
#11. To: innieway (#0)
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