Posted on 03/25/2015 7:12:12 AM PDT by george76
Federal employees owed more in delinquent taxes last year than any year in the past decade, costing the Internal Revenue Service $1.4 billion in 2014.
The 113,805 civilian government employees who declined to pay all of their taxes last year would be ineligible to work for federal agencies under a House bill introduced last week that would hold officials accountable for evading taxes.
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It is disconcerting that federal civilian employees owe more than one billion dollars in back taxes," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "These employees are not exempt from their civic responsibility to fulfill tax obligations, and those who refuse to pay what they owe should be held accountable."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I wonder how many are political appointees?
Betcha there are codes in the I.R.S. systems that hide or prevent investigation of those who are federal employees.
They do not ‘decline to pay’. They can’t pay right at the moment, but they’re not going to get off. They are required by the IRS to come up with a plan to get caught up, and pay interest on the unpaid balance.
Federal employees owed more in delinquent taxes last year than any year in the past decade —
Compare this with non-fed employees.
Times are tougher lately.
Welfare class, not paying at all, probably not delinquent (ha ha).
Laws are just for the suckers. Not for the special class. Haven’t they proved this enough yet?
This is what happens (I was retired military, contractor, and did a 3.5 year stint as a GS in DC)...people live out in X-Y-Z....working a non-fed job, and are pulling in $50-$60k a year. The big day arrives when their esteemed buddy or former boss gets hauled up to DC for some job and suddenly you get an offer to go up take a GS-13 job ($90k starting salary). You arrive in March or April and work through the year...never really talking to some tax adviser and not deducting enough for fed or Maryland/Virginia state taxes.
You wake up a year later when you realize that you owe another $20,000 to the state and fed situation...minimum.
For some guys, it’s worse...they get some fed job and pull in $110,000 a year and the wife gets some local lobbyist job, and they have underestimated their taxes to a tune of $70k for one single year.
I worked with a GS11 who had a wife who was a contractor under Microsoft. She’d fly from Arlington to Washington state for 20 days of work, then fly back for 10 days of rest each month. She was hauling in a minimum of $160,000 a year. For the whole first year....she deducted almost nothing for state taxes and the bare minimum for fed taxes. My associate woke up one day on a joint tax situation...he needed around an extra $80,000 to settle up for the joint return on fed and state taxes. No advice from a tax guy...could have done something with 401k stuff...really screwed over his situation for a couple of months.
These people just don’t ask for advice and can’t believe how your pay just escalates with each $10k more you take in.
Simple solutions evade the simple mind.
They should also face disciplinary action for ‘Failure to meet just debts’.
Federal employees prove it pays to be a slacker feds wink.
I got zapped by the IRS last year. It turned out that one of my 401Ks sent me TWO 1099-R for a previous year, but I only ever received one, and as such, didn’t think to look for a second.
The IRS got it, though. We looked, found the problem, entered a payment plan, and I paid double or more every month. 7 months later: paid off.
Why can’t Feds do that ??
Arrest them...seize their assets and fire them. Problem solved.
Sure they will, wink wink.
If you have an installment plan, and don’t make the installments, the IRS can be very rough. They will seize your assets.
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