Federal News Radio posted a short report from earlier this week about efforts at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to collect over $3.5 billion in back taxes from federal employees. The Internal Revenue Service is trying to collect billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from nearly half a million federal employees. According to IRS records, 171,549 current federal workers did not voluntarily pay their federal income taxes in 2007. The same is true for 37,752 active duty military and nearly 200,000 retired civilian and military personnel. Documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act show 449,531 federal employees and retirees did not pay their taxes for a total of $3,586,784,725 in taxes owed last year. Best of all is that Federal News Radio made the data set they obtained under FOIA available to everyone else. You can download the excel file from their site. Nice work Federal News Radio! (h/t Tax Foundation)