Do you think your tax problem is bad?  It may be, but I doubt it’s worse than the collective amount owed by Department of Justice employees, who owe $14.3 million.  The DOJ is the same group that prosecutes alleged tax criminals.  Details below from the ABA Journal:

Nearly 2,000 Justice Department employees collectively owe the Internal Revenue Service $14.3 million.

But it’s not the only federal agency with a legal focus with delinquent taxpayers on staff. Employees of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts collectively owe $11.8 million, while employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission collectively owe a little more than $1 million.

The Washington Post collected the figures on back taxes owed by federal workers and published a story last week that emphasized the $9.3 million owed by Capitol Hill employees. A separate chart had the breakdown.

The total taxes owed by federal workers and retirees in 2009 was 3.3 billion, TaxProf Blog says. NewsMax.comand Main Justice noted the Justice Department figure.

The Justice Department is a large federal agency, Newsmax.com writes. “Still, Justice is conspicuous in its employees proportionately stiffing Uncle Sam in comparison with other federal agencies.” The Justice Department ranked 15th on the list of federal agencies with the most outstanding tax delinquents, Main Justice says.

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