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Article: STA fixes Social Security slip: Agency pays $1.07 million to cover omitted workers.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- December 31, 2005
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Byline: Shawn Vestal, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
Dec. 31--The Spokane Transit Authority has paid $1.07 million and will update tax records going back for more than 20 years as part of a settlement with the IRS over unpaid Social Security taxes.
The settlement covers 114 employees who were mistakenly not included in the Social Security program for years. The employees were absorbed into the STA from the previous transit agency in Spokane, and officials thought that the workers could be omitted from Social Security and covered by state and local government pensions.
The rest of the STA's 519 workers have been included in Social Security ...