The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating tax noncompliance among current and retired federal employees.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the committee, said a recent rise in tax delinquency rates of federal employees prompted the investigation. The investigation comes after a May 6 report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found the amount of federal employees who failed to file taxes steadily increased from 2021 to 2024.
TIGTA’s report found about 572,000 federal civilian employees owed outstanding taxes at the end of fiscal 2024, with a total amount of $6.3 billion outstanding — an increase of $1.5 billion, or 32%, from 2021. The number of tax-delinquent federal employees increased by 43% in that time, while the total size of the federal workforce increased by 4% in the same period.
The report also said about 50,000 federal employees had failed to file a tax return for multiple years, including 122 who had failed to file eight or more returns.
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