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alp227

(32,034 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2013, 09:08 PM Oct 2013

700 IRS contract workers owe $5.4M in back taxes

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 700 employees of Internal Revenue Service contractors owe $5.4 million in back taxes, said a report Wednesday by the agency's inspector general.

More than half of those workers are supposed to be ineligible to do work for the IRS because they are not enrolled in installment plans to pay the taxes they owe.

Unlike other federal agencies, the IRS requires employees and those who work on agency contracts to comply with federal tax laws. That means they have to file returns on time and either pay all the taxes they owe or enroll in a payment plan.

"Because many contractor employees have access to sensitive IRS systems and facilities, the IRS should address tax noncompliance for these employees in a similar manner as it would for its own employees," said J. Russell George, Treasury inspector general for tax administration.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/700-irs-contract-workers-owe-54m-back-taxes

Yesterday the AP reported: IRS paid more than $110B in improper tax credits

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700 IRS contract workers owe $5.4M in back taxes (Original Post) alp227 Oct 2013 OP

Deduct it from the contract payments..... Historic NY Oct 2013 #1

Physician, heal thyself ashling Oct 2013 #2

well if they owe it they should have to pay it back. ZomBoy Oct 2013 #3

Link to "a report... by the agency's inspector general?" Cerridwen Oct 2013 #4

see below jtuck004 Oct 2013 #8

The way the story is written, how many readers will recognize that the problem is the private okaawhatever Oct 2013 #5

Whereas companies like GE legitimately pay zero in taxes because merrily Oct 2013 #6

Link to report: jtuck004 Oct 2013 #7

Yeah let's outsource even more government functions, why not even privatize it Snake Plissken Oct 2013 #9

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

1. Deduct it from the contract payments.....

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 09:45 PM

Oct 2013

ashling

(25,771 posts)

2. Physician, heal thyself

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 09:48 PM

Oct 2013

sorry for the religious reference

ZomBoy

(36 posts)

3. well if they owe it they should have to pay it back.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 11:06 PM

Oct 2013

Make sure they get enrolled in a installment plan as soon as possible.

Cerridwen

(13,258 posts)

4. Link to "a report... by the agency's inspector general?"

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 11:21 PM

Oct 2013

Another link to a reliable source that isn't "Always Pathetic," aka AP?

AP has proven unreliable. For example, a reliable and honest reporting agency would have included a link to the IG report mentioned in the article. I don't see a link at the 2 articles you linked to AP's "Big Story" (seriously?) to the report. I'd like to read the report myself. Perhaps I need my prescription updated and I just can't see it with these glasses.

If so, would you provide a link to the report please.

Thanks.

Signed,

~Cerridwen (opposition research "specialist" since 1990-ish)