SCOFFLAWS: IRS Reports Federal Employees Owe $1.3 Billion in Back Taxes

There is a suspicion in this country (which I share) that the people who run our government have a sense of entitlement, that they believe that there are two sets of laws, one for them and one for the rest of the rest of the people. We can now put an end to those suspicions. They have now been proven.

All this political talk about tax cuts is all nonsense. Federal employees have taken their own tax cut. Not an approved tax cut mind you, but a tax cut the same.  According to the IRS people presently working for the federal government owe an aggregate of more than $1.3 billion in back taxes.  The average federal scofflaw owes $8,700. When you add in retired Civilian and military employees, that number jumps to $3.3 Billion.

According to the Washington Post Article reporting the scofflaws, one of the biggest collection of scofflaws can be found within the organizations making our tax law, the legislature:

 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 information does not identify delinquent taxpayers by name, party affiliation or job title and does not indicate whether members of Congress are among the scofflaws. It shows that 638 employees, or about 4 percent, of the 18,000 Hill workers owe money.

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

But its not just congressional staffers who owe money.  Some of the most ironic examples of tax avoidance include the department of treasury, where the IRS sits $7.6 million, the FDIC $2.2 million, Stedman Graham Eric Holder's Department of Justice who prosecutes tax scofflaws, $14.4 million and of course my personal favorite the Office of Government Ethics $75 thousand.

What the list below which shows delinquency by department, is that the people who are taking the money out of your pockets aren't putting in their fair share.

Organization/Type of worker	Number of delinquent employees	Balance owed to the IRS
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts	754	$ 11,808,236
Agriculture	2,265	$ 17,824,971
Air Force	5,817	$ 46,787,244
Armed Forces Retirement Home	14	$ 164,072
Army	11,330	$ 89,966,859
Broadcasting Board of Governors	56	$ 653,395
Civilian retirees	40,000	$ 454,938,448
Commerce	1,556	$ 22,246,314
Commission on Civil Rights	3	$ 2,537
Commodity Futures Trading Commission	13	$ 160,623
Consumer Product Safety Commission	12	$ 96,638
Corporation for National and Community Service	24	$ 108,202
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency	61	$ 420,776
Defense	4,454	$ 38,495,128
Education	163	$ 3,995,066
Energy	331	$ 4,899,649
Environmental Protection Agency	442	$ 5,862,994
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	84	$ 1,303,316
Executive Office of the President	41	$ 831,055
Export-Import Bank of the United States	10	$ 166,288
Farm Credit Administration	7	$ 17,290
Federal Communications Commission	58	$ 712,416
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	155	$ 2,249,326
Federal Election Commission	8	$ 115,747
Federal Housing Finance Board	4	$ 79,829
Federal Labor Relations Authority	7	$ 11,599
Federal Maritime Commission	3	$ 21,646
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service	7	$ 25,662
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission	5	$ 11,769
Federal Reserve System - Board of Governors	81	$ 1,076,733
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board	4	$ 23,519
Federal Trade Commission	35	$ 363,579
General Services Administration	385	$ 4,646,308
Government Accountability Office	66	$ 704,485
Government Printing Office	158	$ 2,143,812
Health and Human Services	2,841	$ 37,327,491
Holocaust Memorial Museum	5	$ 42,872
Homeland Security	4,856	$ 37,012,174
Housing and Urban Development	421	$ 4,991,608
Institute of Museum and Library Services	3	$ 22,541
Interior	1,812	$ 12,684,470
International Boundary and Water Comm.	8	$ 6,879
International Trade Commission	12	$ 63,936
Justice	1,971	$ 14,350,152
Labor	463	$ 7,481,463
Merit Systems Protection Board	10	$ 126,398
Military active duty	28,853	$ 109,557,536
Military Reserves/National Guard	30,631	$ 219,525,138
Military retirees	84,034	$ 1,525,688,378
Millennium Challenge Corporation	9	$ 8,412
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	327	$ 3,854,072
National Archives and Records Administration	100	$ 341,061
National Credit Union Administration	17	$ 48,299
National Endowment for the Arts	7	$ 34,740
National Endowment for the Humanities	4	$ 79,279
National Labor Relations Board	43	$ 497,974
National Science Foundation	67	$ 588,764
National Transportation Safety Board	8	$ 70,469
Navy	6,841	$ 72,432,604
Nuclear Regulatory Commission	57	$ 1,099,897
Office of Government Ethics	3	$ 75,304
Office of Personnel Management	172	$ 2,367,268
Office of Special Counsel	6	$ 34,737
Other civilian	4,125	$ 37,921,682
Overseas Private Investment Corporation	3	$ 1,605
Peace Corps	31	$ 75,459
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation	43	$ 334,211
Presidio Trust	10	$ 680,682
Railroad Retirement Board	31	$ 531,798
Securities and Exchange Commission	91	$ 1,030,485
Selective Service System	5	$ 68,163
Small Business Administration	249	$ 2,745,489
Smithsonian Institution	251	$ 2,226,791
Social Security Administration	1,920	$ 17,841,329
State	356	$ 3,259,502
Tennessee Valley Authority	292	$ 6,766,333
Transportation	1,328	$ 17,098,463
Treasury	1,204	$ 7,670,814
U.S. Agency for International Development	123	$ 1,104,009
U.S. House of Representatives	421	6,524,892
U.S. Postal Service	27,807	$ 283,365,996
U.S. Senate	217	2,774,836
U.S. Tax Court	4	$ 51,111
United States Access Board	3	$ 11,495
Veterans Affairs	12,013	$ 156,604,799

SOURCE: IRS | GRAPHIC: Karen Yourish and Kenneth W. Smith Jr. - The Washington Post