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Taxes Owed by Congressional Employees Top $9 Million

The denizens of Capitol Hill owed the government that they work for $9.3 million in back taxes at the end of last year, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The newspaper used Internal Revenue Service data to determine that 638 congressional employees -- about 4 percent of the workforce on the Hill -- owed the IRS for overdue federal taxes. That compared to a nationwide delinquency rate of 3 percent. Even so, the more than $9 million owed by Capitol Hill workers is a small fraction of the $1 billion owed by federal employees across government. Since the IRS does not identify delinquent ...

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