Federal workers owe billions in unpaid taxes

WTOP ^ | February 15th | Mark Seagraves

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

From the U.S. Postal Service to the Executive Office of the President, thousands of federal workers have not paid their 2007 federal income taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service is trying to collect billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from nearly half a million federal employees. According to IRS records, 171,549 current federal workers did not voluntarily pay their federal income taxes in 2007. The same is true for 37,752 active duty military and nearly 200,000 retired civilian and military personnel.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

We're surrounded by tax cheats who want to raise our taxes! Instead of raising taxes, just get these people to be honest!

[Red Badger]

Okay, these are GOVERNMENT workers who owe INCOME TAX to the GOVERNMENT. Where’s any REAL MONEY involved?......................

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think a lot of these idiots were in Mesa, Arizona cheering and applauding their “messiah” yesterday!

[dfwgator]

They pretend to work, and the government pretends to pay them.

[Not A Snowbird]

According to IRS records, 171,549 current federal workers did not voluntarily pay their federal income taxes in 2007.

Define "Voluntary". I paid, but I used alot of colorful language while I prepared my return and if I'd had a choice in the matter I would have preferred not to give the government one (bleep) dime. There was nothing voluntary about it.

[edcoil]

How is this done? They get W-2 and have W-4’s and money is suppose to be deducted from the check before they even get it.

[mirkwood]

When you decide to clean house, do you walk next door and tell the neighbors how to do it?

[MrB]

The real money is involved in the paycheck they take home that comes out of YOUR pocket.

[Not A Snowbird]

money is suppose to be deducted from the check before they even get it.

It is. They're probably under-withholding. I have extra taken out and I still have to pay big bucks at the end of the year.

[Hoodlum91]

“Federal workers owe billions in unpaid taxes”

And that’s just the Obama adminsitration.

[MrB]

If you want to have some fun,

try entering a discussion with a lib and try to get them to admit that taxes are taken at gun point.

Their dancing puts Fred Astaire to shame...

[IYAS9YAS]

I’ll bet 90+% of them are democrats. The other 10% died in 2006, but still got paid through 2007.

[xcamel]

The agency with the most delinquent employees is the U.S. Postal Service. With more than 747,000 employees, the postal service is the largest employer in the federal government, but with a 4.16 percent delinquency rate, it is a full 1 percent above the average compliance rate this year.

The IRS would not provide comparable data for the general population. But a spokesperson for the IRS did supply the delinquency rate for IRS employees — less than 1 percent. The IRS is the only federal agency where an employee can be fired for not paying his taxes.

go figure..

[Heartland Mom]

Why are their wages not being garnished as would those in the private sector?

[popdonnelly]

Pay up, folks, before the peasants march on Washington and remove you from your cushy jobs.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Claim 8 dependents and have very little deducted and just don’t file a return.

[popdonnelly]

Pay up, folks, before the peasants march on Washington and remove you from your cushy jobs.

[Not A Snowbird]

I really upset libs when I tell them I wouldn’t mind paying taxes if I could designate my contribution to a constitutionally mandated federal function. Like providing for the common defense.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I know how to solve this problem:

Just tell the IRS that all these tax evaders are a bunch of conservatives related to Rush Limbaugh, and they'll get to investigating it immediately.

[DManA]

Tax Revolt!!

They did not VOLUNTARILY pay their taxes and since the income tax is voluntary I guess nothing's going to happen to 'em.