Over 280,000 Federal Workers Owe $3.3 Billion in Back Taxes
Over 280,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.3 billion in back income taxes in 2009 (up from $3.0 billion in 2008 and $2.7 billion in 2007).The cabinet departments with the largest percentages of employee/retiree tax deadbeats are:
- Housing & Urban Development: 4.40%
- Veterans Affairs: 4.04%
- Education: 3.86%
- Army: 3.69%
- Health & Human Services: 3.58%
- Defense: 3.20%
- Commerce: 3.15%
- Air Force: 3.14%
- State: 3.10%
- Navy: 2.95%
The agencies and commissions with the largest percentages of employee/retiree tax deadbeats are:
- Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled: 14.29%
- Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission: 11.11%
- U.S. Access Board: 7.32%
- Government Printing Office: 6.83%
- National Capital Planning Commission: 6.67%
- Small Business Administration: 6.34%
- Federal Labor Relations Authority: 5.79%
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: 5.77%
- Armed Forces Retirement Home: 5.28%
- U.S. Office of Special Counsel: 5.26%
Other departments and agencies:
- Federal Reserve Board: 4.32%
- U.S. House of Representatives: 3.93%
- U.S. Senate: 3.04%
- SEC: 2.44%
- U.S. Tax Court: 1.75%
- Treasury Department: 0.99% (the lowest delinquency rate among cabinet departments)
Press and blogosphere coverage:
- The Atlantic, Why Do White House Staffers Have Trouble Paying Taxes?
- Fox News, White House Aides Owed More Than $800G in Back Taxes
- The Hill, Hill Staffers Owe More Than $9M in Taxes
- L.A. Times, 41 Obama White House Aides Owe the IRS $831,000 in Back Taxes -- and They're Not Alone
- Washington Post, Capitol Hill Employees Owed $9.3 Million in Back Taxes Last Year, Data Show
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