How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.
Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.
Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.
A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.
Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama's White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That's up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration's last year.
Nearly one-third of Obama's aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200, each.
The IRS' 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees' tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.
The report finds that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. That's up 3% in the past year.
...36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes ...
I don't rermember a whole lotta ire being raised by the Right when it was the Bush administration employee's that owed a scatload of cash to America... any one else remember the Right ranting & raving about this back then?
Senate 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:
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: 9.4%
Government Printing Office: 7.4%
Smithsonian: 5.6%
Courts: 5.5%
Defense Department: 5.4%
Selective Service: 5.4%
EEOC: 5.3%
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: 5.3%
Federal Labor Relations Authority: 5.0%
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%).
If the amount owed is identified, it just means they made errors on their returns, which are owed. It doesn't mean they have cheated or do not intend to pay up. This is routine business to file under BFD.
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