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Amy6627 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-17-07 03:18 PM
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CONTRACTORS BEHAVING BADLY - Sur-prise, Sur-prise!
http://www.taxpayer.net/

Contractors Behaving Badly -- Thousands of contractors doing business with Uncle Sam are stiffing the federal government for billions of dollars in back-taxes.

Over the past few years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has discovered more than 60,000 contractors that owe more than $7.7 billion in back taxes. This includes 27,000 Department of Defense contractors, 33,000 civilian agency contractors and 3,800 General Service Agency contractors; contractors working for DOD, NASA, Department of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, providing a wide range of services ranging from law enforcement to disaster relief. While these contractors have one hand out to get government cash, they were using the other to stiff arm the tax man..

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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-17-07 03:34 PM
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1. Why I am (yawn) shocked, I tell you (yawn) SHOCKED!!!!!!!!
It's a pretty friken sad state of affairs when corruption in government is the norm, eh?
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-17-07 04:10 PM
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2. haha.. of course. to them the government is evil and taxes are bad...
..uh.. so they.. um.. should not get paid?
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