Capitol Hill Staffers May Have to Pay Their Taxes – Oops Never Mind

by Ry@SpillingBuckets on March 5, 2010

For about 26 hours on Wednesday and Thursday the halls of Congress were a little quieter than usual. Rouge Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah introduced legislation that would require hundreds of Senate and House staffers to do something so foul, so revolting, so offensive that many of them spent the night curled in the fetal position.

For 26 hours in order to keep their jobs government employees were almost required to pay their taxes. And then they were not.

“We have over 600 staffers on Capitol Hill not paying their taxes. That’s just not acceptable,” Chaffetz said in an interview with POLITICO. “It’s disingenuous to take federal taxpayer dollars and not pay your full share of taxes. It’s wrong.”

Federal employees in the U.S. House of Representatives owed more than $5.8 million in unpaid taxes in 2008. The Senate employees owe more than $2.46 million, according to figures.

A recent Government Accountability Office study estimated that government contractors owe the government nearly $5 billion in back taxes.

3/3/2010 2:04 PM EST: News Breaks – Chaffetz to introduce tax cheat axe bill
3/4/2010 4:33 PM EST: News Breaks – Democrats pull tax cheat axe bill

As the law stands now, only IRS employees can lose their jobs….

Published at SpillingBuckets.com

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