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Posted on 06/26/2026 4:59:17 AM PDT by DFG
An investigation by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has found that 571,000 federal employees and retirees have failed to pay their share of income taxes, depriving the U.S. Treasury of more than $6.3 billion in revenues.
The number of tax scofflaws working for Uncle Sam is continuing to surge, with tax debt among federal workers growing 32% since 2021.
And the number of current and former government employees who aren’t paying taxes has increased by 43% in three years, according to House Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who serves as chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee announced its investigation launch on Wednesday.
“I don’t think anyone in America knew about it, including myself,” Comer told the Just the News, No Noise TV show. “The people who have made their living and their retirement off of our hard-earned tax dollars aren’t paying their taxes.”
50,000 federal employees have not filed taxes for more than 2 years
Comer wants the IRS to make an example of these employees. A recent Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report that found that roughly 50,000 federal employees haven't filed a tax return for two or more years, including 14,000 workers who make more than $100,000 annually and about 122 people who didn't file taxes for eight or more years while still receiving taxpayer-funded salaries.
The IRS sent delinquency notices to about 427,000 current and retired federal employees in June and July 2025. However, just 4,700 paid their outstanding tax liabilities in full, the report states.
The unpaid tax bills by federal employees come as Vice President J.D. Vance is currently targeting tens of billions in waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.
Following President Donald Trump’s appointment of Vance as a “fraud czar” in early April, the Vice President has helmed a federal task force working to uncover fraud across the country. So far, he's revealed that hospices and health agencies in Los Angeles accounted for around $600 million in public funds fraud (and promptly shut it down), referred Congress’s evidence that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison failed to act against mass welfare fraud to the Justice Department for investigation, and has uncovered other operations in Maine.
“We will not stop until every hard-earned taxpayer dollar goes toward the honest Americans who deserve them,” a Vance spokesperson said in April.
Comer sees the federal employees' tax noncompliance as contributing to an epidemic: “We have a national debt that continues to skyrocket.”
Garnishing federal workers' wages a possibility He thinks there’s a lot of opportunity in this situation to hold the transgressors accountable for not contributing to the tax dollars “that pay their salary and provide their retirement benefits.”
The long-term fix to Comer is garnishing the employees’ wages and terminating their jobs. It isn't an easy feat to fire these employees, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk figured out quickly with the now-disbanded Department of Government Efficiency. Since federal employees are protected by the civil service, similar to a tenured teacher, their employment is fairly difficult to terminate.
Garnishing the workers' wages — which Comer is calling for — means the government would withhold a portion of their paychecks to pay off the debt they accumulated by not filing and/or paying their taxes.
“Your wages get garnished if you’re a deadbeat dad,” he said, citing child support payment requirements. “These are deadbeat taxpayers, and to make it worse, they work for the federal government.”
Comer wants the transgressors’ names to be published and records opened.
“Their friends and neighbors and relatives and people they attend church with, they need to know that this federal employee is not even bothering to file a tax return," he said.
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Only White people pay taxes, didn’t you know that, SUCKERS!
Can federal workers do anything honest or productive?
Simple. If they are receiving a pension, seize it. If thet are working, fire them and seize all pension funds and IRAs.
The question I want answered is why do so many federal employees believe they do not have to pay taxes like the rest of us?
Why aren’t their wages being garnished.
Diogenes story, his point was that true integrity and sincerity were extraordinarily rare in a society obsessed with wealth, status, and appearances.
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50,000 federal employees have not filed taxes for more than 2 years
Comer wants the IRS to make an example of these employees. A recent Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report that found that roughly 50,000 federal employees haven’t filed a tax return for two or more years, including 14,000 workers who make more than $100,000 annually and about 122 people who didn’t file taxes for eight or more years while still receiving taxpayer-funded salaries.
The IRS sent delinquency notices to about 427,000 current and retired federal employees in June and July 2025. However, just 4,700 paid their outstanding tax liabilities in full, the report states.
The unpaid tax bills by federal employees come as Vice President J.D. Vance is currently targeting tens of billions in waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.
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sauce: IRS.gov
If taxes are not paid timely, and the IRS is not notified why the taxes cannot be paid, the law requires that enforcement action be taken, which could include the following:
Issuing a notice of levy on salary and other income, bank accounts or property (legally seize property to satisfy the tax debt)
How about we drastically cut Federal spending, and similarly cut payroll taxes?
Crazy idea, right?
The more I make in salary the more I’m punished by Fedzilla. What a lovely reward for hard work and trying to advance to better serve my family. It’s insulting.
“”The long-term fix to Comer is garnishing the employees’ wages and terminating their jobs.””
AND without a job/salary, what would be garnished?
It really has been publicized for many years and still goes on.. Good question....
“”the law requires that enforcement action be taken, which could include the following: Issuing a notice of levy on salary and other income, bank accounts or property (legally seize property to satisfy the tax debt)””
Isn’t that what we’ve always assumed would happen and now we learn it apparently doesn’t?
Some do, and they are the ones who pay their taxes. The deadbeats and drones who do nothing and get away with it think they can avoid paying taxes as well. There's a place for people like that, I believe they call it "jail".
Part of this is how much harder it became to do your own taxes.
I took pride in doing my own taxes because I knew my financial situation better than anyone else.
The IRS stopped mailing out the forms to do so.
The local library stopped keeping and offering the forms for free to those who needed them to do their taxes.
Eventually, I gave up and hired someone to do my taxes for me. They may not do as well as I used to, but the opportunity cost and stress got so great that I was willing to pay.
It is not hard for me to see how someone could get behind, get stressed out, and end up not filing a tax return.
It seems the IRS wants everyone to turn the tax calculations over to a computer program, which has all sorts of assumptions and calculations you know nothing about.
Not filing a tax return is not the same thing as not paying taxes.
This is what pisses me off about all those piggies who complained about DOGE. The maggots weren’t working, collecting a government check and benefits and they weren’t paying any taxes. Corruption!!!
“Why aren’t their wages being garnished.”
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Because there’s an aversion to the concept of accountability in this country.
I read a report like this years ago. This has been going on for a very long time. The fact that nobody’s wages are being garnished indicates it probably will just continue. There’s been plenty of opportunity to clamp down on these people. It’s not been taken.
An investigation by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has found that 571,000 federal employees and retirees have failed to pay their share of income taxes, depriving the U.S. Treasury of more than $6.3 billion in revenues.
“I Forgot!”
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Tax debt among federal workers has surged 32% since 2021, and the number of government employees who aren’t paying taxes has increased by 43% in three years.
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