Tens of thousands of federal employees have failed to file a tax return for multiple years, an inspector general reported this week.
An analysis of data from fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2020 found more than 42,000 federal workers have “repeatedly failed to file a tax return for multiple years,” the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report (pdf) on the analysis.
The watchdog said that “repeatedly and intentionally not filing a tax return when required to do so is a brazen form of noncompliance, particularly when it is done by Federal employees.”
The IRS did not immediately respond to a request for comment….