Tax Cheat$

The IRS has added hundreds of employees to their high wealth unit to go after rich tax cheats.

Now they need to dedicate some resources to fellow federal employees...

Feds owe Uncle Sam $3B in unpaid taxes

According to Internal Revenue Service documents, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe $3,042,200,000 from 2008.

That's a slight improvement from the $3,586,784,725 in unpaid income taxes in 2007.

They should be willing and able to make amends with the huge pay increases we noted on Sunday (Who's Fat?) and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Maybe the IRS can start an amnesty program similar to one that ended recently for offshore tax dodgers...

IRS Settles Claims with 14,700 Tax Cheats

That program had the IRS claiming it a historic milestone, they might call a federal employee program a landmark achievement.

The IRS has the best compliance rate per any federal agency and is the only federal agency where employees can be fired for not paying their taxes.

The worst offenders work for the post office, 28,913 employees owe nearly $300 Million.

Maybe the forms got lost in the mail...it could happen.

Executive Office of the President (includes the White House): 50 employees owe $812,917.
U.S. Senate: 231 employees owe $2,469,026.
U.S. House of Representatives: 447 employees owe $5,809,631.