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How can government employees say they pay income tax?
Wouldn't it be easier if they just got a reduction in pay? Do welfare recipients pay income tax as well?
If I took a portion of my check, say $10, paid someone $1 to keep it for a week, then apply the leftover $9 to my next check, what sense does this make? Now I have to take another $10 out of the $9 I got back, so basically, I'm paying the IRS $1/week in this example, not to mention, they are probably doing the same with their taxpayer supplied incomes as well.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There are many branches of government, not just the IRS.
Just because I work for the government doesn't mean that I want my EMPLOYER (which is not the IRS) to have all my TAX info, such as how much I donate to charities, how much interest I pay on my mortgage.
Of course government employees pay taxes, just like everyone else. But it is the responsibility of the IRS (not every single branch of the government and every single government office) to determine how much taxes are owed by individual taxpayers, and to collect it.
Source(s): Gov't employee - ToledoLv 51 decade ago
They are employees, yes they pay income taxes........what else could it be called if it is tax coming out of wages? I think you are grasping at straws.
Just because it is the government paying the wage does not make the tax anything else.
