Connecticut’s top tax collector confirms his agency has identified about a thousand state workers who appear uncompliant on their state and federal income taxes.
Connecticut's top tax collector confirms his agency has identified about a thousand state workers who appear uncompliant on their state and federal income taxes.
State Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin B. Sullivan said the state annually reviews all of its DRS staff, along with employees at the state's other agencies, for tax-filing compliance.
The tax-filing review, Sullivan said, is separate from an ongoing probe by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service — in which his agency also is cooperating — into a tax-withholding scheme that so far has netted at least 80 current and former state workers.
The Hartford Business Journal previously reported (Aug. 17) on the IRS probe that investigators say has now widened to an unspecified number of other states in New England and nationwide.
One of those snared in that probe, a state worker at the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, was sentenced Aug. 14 to 16 months in prison and ordered to repay the IRS $105,697.22 in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.
Sullivan said the state regularly tries to identify potential tax deadbeats on its payroll by cross-indexing state and federal tax files with state workers' withholding records.
It's unfair, he said, for the state to insist taxpayers pay their fair share fully and on time if state workers, whose salaries depend on taxpayers' honesty and fairness, themselves aren't.
— Gregory Seay
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