should all taxes be waived for all government employees?

Question

they are paid by the govt. why should they have taxes taken
out? its double taxation.

Answer 1

5.04.1 General Procedures
Accounts Payable will issue a revolving fund check as a temporary advance to an employee for travel expenses before the travel is actually performed. Advances may be issued upon the completion of form T2: Request for Absence from Campus. It should be submitted concurrently with all other travel forms, and should be received by Accounts Payable not more than 30 and not less than three days before departure.

The advance should be reasonably calculated and should cover all prior expenses such as registration fee, airline ticket purchase, hotel deposit and estimated subsistence costs (food and lodging).

Advances will only be made for $150 or more, and only one travel advance check will be issued. Accounts Payable will not pay separate expenses for an individual—this is the responsibility of the person taking the trip. If the only expense that will be incurred is a registration fee, a payment to a travel agency, or some other similar one-item expense, an advance will be issued directly to the vendor. An invoice, although not mandatory, is preferred and would eliminate the need for a travel expense claim. If an invoice is not supplied, a travel expense claim must be prepared.

If after returning from a designated trip and after filing a Travel Expense Claim (Std. Form 262), the claimant is entitled to an additional reimbursement — e.g., mileage — a second revolving check can be issued after the claim has been audited and approved. Claims and/or revised T2 forms must be filed prior to the end of the fiscal year (June 30) in which the trip occurred if any additional reimbursement is to be paid. If the advance exceeds the employee’s travel expense, the employee is required to promptly reimburse the revolving fund for the difference. A check made payable to SDSU should be attached to the Travel Expense Claim and should be returned no more than 30 days after the expense is paid or incurred.

Employees who fail to repay unused travel funds within thirty days of the trip may be denied travel advance funds for future trips. If travel advance funds were not used during the trip, they should be readily available for repayment and should not have been spent for personal uses.

Travel advances not cleared within 30 days after return from a trip or upon separation from the university may be withheld from employee’s salary warrant.

If a trip is canceled or postponed indefinitely, the advance must be returned, but no later than 30 calendar days from the date of the advance.

Travel advances and additional revolving fund checks must be picked up in Accounting Services. A representative of the employee may be sent for this purpose; however, in either case, staff / faculty / student identification is required. Three working days should be allowed to process an advance request. If a travel advance is needed for a Thursday trip, the request must be received in Accounts Payable by 3 p.m. Monday in order for the check to be ready by 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Answer 2

I'm not quite getting this. I get paid and the government takes money out of that (SS) etc. Then I turn around and pay taxes. How's that different from a federal employee getting paid, having taxes taken out and paying taxes in April?

Answer 3

why is that double taxation? they are taxed once like the rest of Americans. Just because the government writes their checks does not mean that ther income is tax free. Sometimes though if you work for the town or state they do not show state income tax being taken out on your W-2, but it is taken out of your gross income. same thing they just dont have to file with the state, but federal is always taken out. And government employees should not have to contribute to medicare or social security benifits?? Of corse they do. Just like everyone else.

Answer 4

It's a job just like in the private sector. I work for a county and I do not pay into social security, I pay into PERS Public Employees Retirement. I pay all the rest of the usual taxes. Public school teachers have a similar retirement package as well.

Answer 5

That sounds like a great idea! Yeah, I'll volunteer to double up on MY taxes to account for the loss of government employee taxes. I have been paying the city, county, state and federal taxes for my business today, and it most certainly occurred to me that I just wasn't paying enough.

Answer 6

Really? How did you come to that conclusion that they are paying double taxes? They should pay taxes JUST like the rest of us.

I really like the answer by "common sense" the best. They should be taxed twice as much.

Answer 7

they are not paid by govt. they are paid by the PEOPLE. The TAXES taken out every pay check. That gets pooled and your wages comes from budget from pooled taxes from more than 200 million hard working Americans like us. And you DO NOT want to pay your share?

Answer 8

I easily have in no way enable taxes get in the way of growing to be funds . they are approximately 4 % of employer costs . all people who claims taxes placed them out of employer is the two a fool or a liar or the two .

Answer 9

why should us non-government employees have to pay their wages and taxes and taxes and taxes it should be all non-government employees taxes should be waived how many times are we going to be double taxed

Answer 10

How do you figure its double taxation? They get a paycheck they pay their taxes just like everyone else.