Over 450,000 Federal Workers Are Tax Deadbeats

TaxProf Blog reports:

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking Republican Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to President Bush today complaining that over 450,000 federal workers and retirees owe $3 billion in federal taxes. The Senators also released this tax delinquency data, showing that the largest percentages of federal employee/retiree tax deadbeats are in these departments and agencies:

1.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: 9.4%
2.
Government Printing Office: 7.4%
3.
Smithsonian: 5.6%
4.
Courts: 5.5%
5.
Defense Department: 5.4%
6.
Selective Service: 5.4%
7.
EEOC: 5.3%
8.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: 5.3%
9.
Federal Labor Relations Authority: 5.0%
10.
National Endowment for the Humanities: 5.0%

The Tax Court had 4.9% tax deadbeats, while the Treasury Department had one of the lowest percentages (1.3%).

Government workers sure are special!