Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in back taxes last year, data show

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but one with potential political ramifications for members of Congress.

The debt among Hill employees has risen at a faster rate than the overall tax debt on the government's books, according to Internal Revenue Service data. It comes at a time when some Republican members are pushing for the firings of government workers who owe the IRS and President Obama has urged a crackdown on delinquent government contractors.

The IRS data does not identify delinquent taxpayers by name, party affiliation or job title and does not indicate whether any members of Congress are among the scofflaws. It shows 638 employees, or about 4 percent, of the 18,000 Hill workers owe money, a slightly higher percentage than the 3 percent delinquency rate among all returns filed nationwide.

The average unpaid tax bill is $12,787 among the Senate's delinquent taxpayers and $15,498 among those working in the House.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090903376.html

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Full list of federal workers who evaded taxes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/irs-federal-workers/index.html?sid=ST2010090903529

[napi21]

1. I'd be very interested to find out the details behind that $9.3 MM.

ot the names, that's none of my business, but what kind of taxes are involved. Is it mostly capitol gains taxes, is mostly disputed deductions tht would still show on the IRS side as being delinquent but are in dispute? IF it's mostly taxpayers who simply didn't sed in their checks then I question why the IRS can't simply withold what is owed them from the paychecks of the offenders since the paychecks come FROM THE US GOV'T!

[DJ13]

2. Damn that Turbo Tax!

:rofl:

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[No Elephants]

4. Adding insult to injury.