![]() ![]() ![]() “Willful non-filers are a risk to tax administration in terms of lost revenue, integrity of the tax system, and reputational damage to the federal government,” the auditors said.Ĭongress has made repeated, unsuccessful efforts to apply the firing-of-delinquent-employees requirement governmentwide, coming the closest during the Obama administration. IRS is prohibited from sharing its list of non-compliant feds with other agencies, a ban the IG suggested the Treasury Department lobby Congress to change. The watchdog praised IRS management for successfully handling examples of willful fraud or delinquency. The results, the IG said, speak for themselves: the agency has the lowest non-compliance rate of any in government at just 1.35%. Under a 1998 law, IRS is the lone agency that faces a statutory requirement not to employ anyone willfully out of date on their taxes. Federal employee advocates have noted the delinquency rate in the civil service is lower than national estimates of around 9% for taxpayers overall. The IG identified 42,000 employees with multiple years of unfiled returns, but IRS management said it had resolved 80% of those cases by September 2022. More than 1,000 of the nearly 150,000 feds who owed taxes were delinquent for six years or longer. The number of tax delinquent feds jumped by 32% between fiscal years 20, however, while their collective debt rose by 36% to $1.5 billion. Just 5% of current federal workers owed the IRS money or did not file their taxes in 2021, according to a new report from the agency’s inspector general, up from 3% in 2014 and 4% in 2015. Federal employees overwhelmingly pay their taxes and do so on time, but the Internal Revenue Service’s watchdog wants to see a significant uptick in enforcement on the growing minority of delinquent civil servants. ![]()
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