IRS audit finds 42,000 feds cheating on taxes

[mystery-ak]

IRS audit finds 42,000 feds cheating on taxes
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, March 10, 2023


More than 42,000 federal employees “repeatedly” failed to file their taxes with the IRS, according to a new audit that said the government is limited in its ability to punish the cheats.

Known as “federal employee nonfilers,” the cases are considered particularly egregious since they involve those paid by taxpayer money but shirking taxpayer obligations.

But the IRS devotes little effort to targeting federal nonfilers, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. And the law restricts how much information the IRS can share with other federal agencies, so they’re limited in their ability to prod or punish the employees, the audit found.

As of 2021, delinquent federal employees owed $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.

“Repeatedly not filing a tax return when a taxpayer is required to do so is a brazen form of noncompliance. Federal civilian employees with tax delinquencies have a legal and ethical requirement to be current with their tax obligations,” the inspector general said in the report Thursday.

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[Smokin Joe]

They're Feds.

They make rules, they don't have to follow them...

[catfish1957]

Failed to File?????????

Are you shitting me?   

In my eyes and former career, this is like 42,000 deadbeats who ran from the pump and didn't pay,,,,,,,  and got away with it.

[Kamaji]

Failed to File?????????

Are you shitting me?   

In my eyes and former career, this is like 42,000 deadbeats who ran from the pump and didn't pay,,,,,,,  and got away with it.

Nah.  If they're federal employees, they're most likely to predominantly have wage income subject to withholding, and the wage withholding is intentionally designed to overwithhold.  So they've probably in fact overpaid their income tax, and once it's been three years, they won't be able to get a refund of that overpayment.

[catfish1957]

Nah.  If they're federal employees, they're most likely to predominantly have wage income subject to withholding, and the wage withholding is intentionally designed to overwithhold.  So they've probably in fact overpaid their income tax, and once it's been three years, they won't be able to get a refund of that overpayment.

????

Still have  to file a 1040 and all associated gyrations to get a carryover enumerated for a refund, or a refund carryover.

Kind of like the silly $3K perpetual carryover of Capital losses and filling out the Sch D's

The only obscure reason I could think is that if there were any minimum wage fed employees , like a GS-3.  But latest OPM guidelines are $15/hr.,  so that exceeds the $28,500 threshnold.

I'm stumped....  there are reasons that they might not have a tax liability due to deductions, or exemptions, but not file?   Hmmmmm.