While President Obama repeats his campaign talking point about
high-income private sector employees allegedly not paying their “fair
share” in taxes, many government employees at the Federal Communications
Commission have failed to pay what they already owe under current tax
law.
The Daily Caller has obtained a July 13 letter from Rep. Marsha Blackburn to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, in which the Tennessee Republican wrote that according to Internal Revenue Service data, FCC employees’ income tax delinquency rate rose from 2.74 percent to 3.88 percent from 2008 to 2010. During that same period, she added, unpaid federal income taxes owed by the agency’s staff rose from $544,917 to $1,084,544.
And according to a May 2 memo sent by FCC Chief Human Capital Officer Bonita Tingley to all agency employees, also obtained by TheDC, “the IRS reported that as of September 30, 2011, 3.59 percent of FCC employees had some type of Federal income tax delinquency.” That rate was down only slightly from the 2010 figure.
“Overall,” Tingley disclosed, “the average delinquency rate for civilian employees of Federal agencies and departments was 3.6 percent.”
The FCC’s website discloses that it presently has 1,993 employees. In 2010 the business intelligence website Hoovers reported that the agency employed 1,930 people. That works out to 75 FCC staffers owing Uncle Sam an average of $14,483 each in unpaid income taxes
The number of those FCC employees earning salaries of $150,000 or more rose from 46 in 2008 to 431 in 2009, and then again to 535 in 2011.
Florida Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart noted this FCC salary shift during a March 19 House appropriations subcommittee hearing — the same hearing during which he questioned Genachowski about the agency’s lack of transparency with respect to large numbers of Freedom of Information Act requests.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/16/fcc-employees-owe-1-million-in-delinquent-federal-income-taxes/#ixzz20mE0HGx2
The Daily Caller has obtained a July 13 letter from Rep. Marsha Blackburn to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, in which the Tennessee Republican wrote that according to Internal Revenue Service data, FCC employees’ income tax delinquency rate rose from 2.74 percent to 3.88 percent from 2008 to 2010. During that same period, she added, unpaid federal income taxes owed by the agency’s staff rose from $544,917 to $1,084,544.
And according to a May 2 memo sent by FCC Chief Human Capital Officer Bonita Tingley to all agency employees, also obtained by TheDC, “the IRS reported that as of September 30, 2011, 3.59 percent of FCC employees had some type of Federal income tax delinquency.” That rate was down only slightly from the 2010 figure.
“Overall,” Tingley disclosed, “the average delinquency rate for civilian employees of Federal agencies and departments was 3.6 percent.”
The FCC’s website discloses that it presently has 1,993 employees. In 2010 the business intelligence website Hoovers reported that the agency employed 1,930 people. That works out to 75 FCC staffers owing Uncle Sam an average of $14,483 each in unpaid income taxes
The number of those FCC employees earning salaries of $150,000 or more rose from 46 in 2008 to 431 in 2009, and then again to 535 in 2011.
Florida Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart noted this FCC salary shift during a March 19 House appropriations subcommittee hearing — the same hearing during which he questioned Genachowski about the agency’s lack of transparency with respect to large numbers of Freedom of Information Act requests.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/16/fcc-employees-owe-1-million-in-delinquent-federal-income-taxes/#ixzz20mE0HGx2
1 comment:
Why does Marsha, (Co-Sponsor of SOPA, CISPA), Want Congress to Regulate the Internet? Why not just say NO FEDERAL branch (the FCC and congress and the federal courts included) has any authority to decide or rule on any aspect concerning the Internet?
BUT Marsha Blackburn did Vote FOR: Patriot Act Reauthorization, Electronic Surveillance, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening, Patriot Act extension; and only NOW she is worried about free speech, privacy, and government take over of the internet?
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her “blatantly unconstitutional” votes at :
http://mickeywhite.blogspot.com/2009/09/tn-congressman-marsha-blackburn-votes.html
Mickey
Post a Comment