Workers in non-departmental public bodies (sometimes called  QUANGOs ) may also be classed as civil servants for the purpose of statistics and possibly for their terms and conditions. Collectively a state's civil servants form its civil service or public service.
January 30, 2014 â¢ 9 min read by 36 Comments. A tax lien can be one of the worst items to appear on your credit report. Itâs considered very negative and can cause your credit scores to drop significantly. Even worse, under federal law, unpaid tax liens can remain on credit reports indefinitely, though in practice credit bureaus may remove them after a decade or so. (Once paid and released, a tax lien must be removed seven years from the date it was filed.) There is a way to make tax liens disappear from your credit reports completely, and quickly, though. Unfortunately, not all taxpayers who are dealing with this problem know about it.
1 According to federal law, a late payment can stay on your credit report for up to seven years. After that the entry must be removed.  How much damage it does will depend on three factors -- (1) how late you were, (2) how recent it was, and (3) whether or not there's a pattern of delinquencies.