Feds owe Uncle Sam $3B in unpaid taxes

WASHINGTON - At a time when the White House is projecting the largest deficit in the nation's history, Uncle Sam is trying to recover billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from its own employees.

Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According to Internal Revenue Service documents, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe $3,042,200,000.

The IRS tracks the voluntary compliance rate of federal employees and retirees each year, and each year feds come up short. The one bright spot in this year's report is that after several years of a steady increase, the amount owed by feds is down from the previous year.

Federal employees and retirees owed $3,586,784,725 in unpaid income taxes in 2007.

The documents show delinquent employees from nearly

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I wonder who might be responsible for that ? Who could it be ? I just don't know. Could it be...

averages to over $11,000 for each delinquent payer.

I'm a little confused as to how they manage that, given that government employees are W-2 subject to withholding.

their taxes done right either. Too many in the government have contempt for the rules the rest of us are supposed to play by - on both sides of the aisle

Am I reading that correctly? That this was an audit of 2008, and not cumulative of an audit that consists of several years?

3 billion in 2008?

Time to collect!