[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 11866-11867]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NOTICES OF HEARINGS/MEETINGS


                permanent subcommittee on investigations

  Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs will hold a hearing on June 16, 2005, entitled 
``Civilian Contractors Who Cheat On Their Taxes And What Should Be Done 
About It.'' The June 16 hearing will be the second hearing the 
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold on tax delinquency 
problems with Federal contractors. On February 12, 2004, the 
Subcommittee

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held a hearing entitled ``DoD Contractors Who Cheat on Their Taxes And 
What Should Be Done About It'' which examined the Department of 
Defense's (DoD) failure to levy contractor payments for unpaid taxes 
owed by contractors doing business with DoD and getting paid with 
taxpayers dollars. The February 2004 hearing also demonstrated that the 
problem of tax delinquent Federal contractors may not be confined to 
DoD. The Subcommittee requested that the Government Accountability 
Office (GAO) determine if Federal contractors at civilian agencies were 
tax delinquent. At the June 16th hearing, the Subcommittee will present 
the results of this expanded investigation. Additionally, the GAO will 
be releasing two reports which were requested by the Subcommittee on 
this matter. The first report covers the extent of tax debt among 
civilian contractors. The second report covers the extent to which the 
Federal Government and the states have entered into reciprocal 
agreements to collect delinquent Federal or State taxes.
  The Subcommittee hearing is scheduled for Thursday, June 16, 2005, at 
9:30 a.m. in Room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. For 
further information, please contact Raymond V. Shepherd, III, Staff 
Director and Chief Counsel to the Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations, at 224-3721.

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