41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes

[Chris_]

41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone

We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

The Post's T.W. Farnum  did some research and found that out of the total sum, just 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. As in, overdue. The IRS gets stiffed by the legislative body that controls its budget. How Washington works.

Privacy laws prevent release of individual tax delinquents' names. But we do know that  as of the end of 2009, 41 people inside Obama's very own White House owe the government they're allegedly running a total of $831,055 in back taxes. That would cover a lot of special chocolate desserts in the White House Mess.

In the House of Representatives, 421 people owe a total $6,524,892. In the Senate, 217 owe $2,774,836. In the IRS' parent department, Treasury, 1,204 owe $7,670,814. At the Labor Department, where Secretary Hilda Solis' husband had some back-tax problems before her confirmation, 463 owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one workers for the Federal Reserve System's board of governors owe $1,076,733.

Over at the Justice Department, which is so busy enforcing other laws and suing Arizona, 1,971 employees still owe $14,350,152 in overdue taxes.

L.A. Times

[true_blood]

Reading that is a slap in the face. We must pay our taxes or else, and these people make more money than the people working in the private sector and they don't pay their taxes?! That's an insult.