Despite government workers demanding everybody to start paying more in taxes to fund their bureaucracy and bloated salaries, it seems that they don’t want to pay those very same taxes, according to a new Internal Revenue Service report released Tuesday.
More than 100,000 federal employees owe approximately $1.14 billion in back taxes at the end of 2014. The IRS noted that this is an all-time high for the United States civilian workforce. Since 2009, federal civilian workers have owed at least $1 billion every year – in 2004, federal workers owed only $600 billion.
The IRS notes that when retired civilian government workers as well as active and retired military personnel are included in the report then that number balloons to $3.5 billion in back taxes.
For active federal workers, the most delinquent agency is the U.S. Postal Service, which currently has a workforce that owes $345 million in back taxes.
“It is an honor and a privilege to serve in the federal workforce,” said Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican Congressman and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, in a statement. “It is disconcerting that federal civilian employees owe more than one billion dollars in back taxes. 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.”
The entire IRS report can be found below:
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