Numbers: Apr. 10, 2000

8.4% Members of the House of Representatives who hadn't paid their taxes as of last October, one of the highest delinquency rates in the Federal Government

8.1% National nonpayment rate

1.7 million Estimated number of returns filed last year with the wrong Social Security number

$50,000 Increase in White House phone bills after an Army sergeant working in the White House Communications Agency gave its long-distance-access code to acquaintances, who made 9,400 unauthorized calls in two months

90# Extension that scammers ask officeworkers to dial, which, phone companies warn, transfers the scammers to an outside line, letting them make a long-distance...

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