The IRS devotes little effort to targeting federal nonfilers, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
can share with other federal agencies, so they’re limited in their ability to prod or punish the employees, the audit found.“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.
TIGTA found that tax compliance among federal employees has been trending down in recent years. As recently as 2017, just 108,000 employees were delinquent in filing or paying. But in 2021, that rose to 149,000 cases, out of a federal workforce of 3 million.More striking were the persistent cheats. The audit found 42,047 employees who missed multiple years of filing or payment over the review period. That works out to about 1.4% of federal employees.
The Postal Service had the most offenders, with more than 9,000 employees who missed at least two years. The Veterans Affairs Department was runner-up with nearly 6,600 employees.Most of the nonfilers were at the low end of the income scale, with earnings under $100,000. Some 738 of them had incomes of $200,000 or more.
The delinquents generally avoid punishment, the inspector general said, though the exact number of cases referred for criminal investigation was redacted in the new report.Lia Colbert, the commissioner of the ’ small business and self-employed division, said nearly 80% of the delinquencies the audit found were “resolved” by last September.“However, in recent years, severe staffing shortages, the pandemic and challenges in
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