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Scofflaw

Politics, The Economy

About 27,100 Department of Defense (DoD) contractors owe the federal government $3 billion in unpaid taxes, but the Pentagon continues to hire and pay them with taxpayers’ money, a congressional investigation has found.

The government has the power to garnish checks cut to scofflaw contractors but has not done so in a significant way, forfeiting an estimated $100 million a year for the U.S. treasury, the study found.

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