More Government Effectiveness

Not! Healthcare Reform Law Requires New IRS Army Of 1,054.

The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.

Come on, taxpayers are going to pay that much to collect how much on tanning salons?

How about we collect those $3.3 billion in taxes owed by government employees? I forgot that taxes are for the “little people.” Aren’t you sick of being a “little” person?

Over 280,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.3 billion in back income taxes in 2009 (up from $3.0 billion in 2008 and $2.7 billion in 2007).

The cabinet departments with the largest percentages of employee/retiree tax deadbeats are:

Housing & Urban Development: 4.40%

Veterans Affairs: 4.04%

Education: 3.86%

Army: 3.69%

Health & Human Services: 3.58%

Defense: 3.20%

Commerce: 3.15%

Air Force: 3.14%

State: 3.10%

Navy: 2.95%

The agencies and commissions with the largest percentages of employee/retiree tax deadbeats are:

Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled: 14.29%

Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission: 11.11%

U.S. Access Board: 7.32%

Government Printing Office: 6.83%

National Capital Planning Commission: 6.67%

Small Business Administration: 6.34%

Federal Labor Relations Authority: 5.79%

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: 5.77%

Armed Forces Retirement Home: 5.28%

U.S. Office of Special Counsel: 5.26%

Other departments and agencies:

Federal Reserve Board: 4.32%

U.S. House of Representatives: 3.93%

U.S. Senate: 3.04%

SEC: 2.44%

U.S. Tax Court: 1.75%

Treasury Department: 0.99% (the lowest delinquency rate among cabinet departments)

via TaxProf Blog: Over 280,000 Federal Workers Owe $3.3 Billion in Back Taxes. So, remind me why we are going after the tanning salons when the IRS cannot retrieve what is already owed?

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Uncle Baruch Says:

February 18, 2011 at 8:35 am

The calculation is that for every buck the guvment spends on these yahoos they will collect six bucks from ussens slaves…

Believe it or not, that’s the deal.

mcnorman Says:

February 18, 2011 at 10:06 am
I believe it. I see how they pay out to the worker they contract with. Most people don’t realize that Medicare pays docs .23 cents on the dollar.

yttik Says:

February 18, 2011 at 10:16 am

This tanning bed nonsense really needs to become a state’s rights issue. It’s a punitive tax and doesn’t take diversity into account. In Southern Ca perhaps tanning beds are a luxury and perhaps people abuse them. In Alaska where you go through the winter with no daylight at all, they can be a matter of survival. Even here in Wa where we have 6 measly hours of filtered daylight, tanning beds can keep the winter blues away and even heal some skin conditions like excema.

Not everything is evil and must be taxed out of existence, but if tanning beds really are evil, isn’t it even more evil for the government to tax the crap out of them and basically profit off of something that is bad for us, kind of like smoking? That’s not serving the people, that’s exploiting them.

mcnorman Says:

February 19, 2011 at 2:49 pm
It’s the most stupid tax that I have ever heard of. If they are trying to stop people from getting skin cancer, it is not the IRS job to do that. That would be the FDA that regulates them. It’s just another way to boondoggle the public.