149,000 federal workers (including 5,000+ IRS employees) owe $1.5 BILLION in back taxes

[1srelluc]

MSN

Republican senators have been up in arms over reports issued over the past 18 months indicating the extent to which federal employees are not paying their federal taxes.

In a July letter, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa noted that a recent audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that 149,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.

Those should be the first to be RIFed.....Those don’t sound like people who should be in positions of trust.

If you can't manage your personal affairs, why should citizens trust you to handle theirs?

Now do Congress and their staff....Start with The Turtle and his wife.

 

[Darkwind]

It is starting to get frightening what they are discovering.

 

[toobfreak]

149,000 federal employees including 5000 IRS employees owe $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.

Even more amazing considering that a REQUIREMENT OF EMPLOYMENT at the IRS is that you carry no back taxes owed.

 

[sparky]

aren't these the folks our government armed to come after the deadbeats?

~S~

 

[rightwinger]

MSN

Republican senators have been up in arms over reports issued over the past 18 months indicating the extent to which federal employees are not paying their federal taxes.

In a July letter, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa noted that a recent audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that 149,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.

Those should be the first to be RIFed.....Those don’t sound like people who should be in positions of trust.

If you can't manage your personal affairs, why should citizens trust you to handle theirs?

Now do Congress and their staff....Start with The Turtle and his wife.

I call Bullshit

That would be $10,000 per employee
They don’t make that much

 

[1srelluc]

aren't these the folks our government armed to come after the deadbeats?

~S~

Given that they had more negligent discharges than "good shoots" since FJB hired them I'd not worry about it much.

 

[sparky]

Given that they had more negligent discharges than "good shoots" since FJB hired them I'd not worry about it much.

I just can't get my head around the fact these boneheads violated the very thing they were hired to uphold Relluc....... ~S~

 

[Freddi00]

The reality is that the IRS applies the same mechanisms regardless of your job: notices, payment plans, Offer in Compromise, or CNC. I went through this about 3–4 months ago, and Tax Law Advocates got me out of it. They spoke directly with the Revenue Officer and stopped the garnishment until a realistic payment arrangement was set up.

 

[Dekster]

I am a big fan of letting big checks sit in a CD until the following year before I start spending any of it for this reason. Know lots of people who royally screwed themselves spending all the money as soon as they got it or thinking the debt discharge was a winning lottery ticket.